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Request uncontroversial deletion of a file I uploaded

Could an administrator please delete this: File:Insurgent Mexico.djvu

I uploaded it using an importer script. I believe due to an incorrect choice when using that tool, the pages are misaligned with the text layer. I'd like to re-import, but I can't do so unless this file is deleted. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 00:40, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@Peteforsyth: Sure, but for the future see {{My bad upload}}. No need to come to COM:AN for this. - Jmabel ! talk 01:29, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the help and the info @Jmabel: ! -Pete Forsyth (talk) 02:18, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

"Restrict MP3 uploads"

Hi, I think this file is in PD per imslp platform indications[1]. However, Upload Wizard would block my upload attempts with a "Restrict MP3 uploads" warning. Could you check it please ? Thanx +++ Archibald Tuttle (talk) 14:33, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/192 by trying to upload an mp3 file with insufficient rights. Too many people try to upload audio files that are still copyrighted by the authors, performers, recorders, publishing companies, etc. without proper licenses from those people. Please document fully the sources and licenses of your audio uploads, and request Autopatrol group membership at COM:RFR when you think you are ready (once you have made more than 500 useful non-botlike edits); having that should allow you to upload mp3 files. Until then, you may reencode the audio into Vorbis or Opus and upload it with full documentation as an .ogg or .oga file (or use any other format accepted per COM:FT#Sound).   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:36, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
@Archibald Tuttle: you are a bit short of the 500 edits, but it's clear that you know what you are doing. If you want to apply at Commons:Requests for rights#Autopatrol and explain why you'd like to slightly "jump the gun" on this, you'll probably be approved. - Jmabel ! talk 20:38, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: No, the issue is not that important. Does it exist any general WM Commons policy regarding imslp audio files uploading ? Cheers Archibald Tuttle (talk) 21:27, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@Archibald Tuttle: Commons:Audio - Jmabel ! talk 21:42, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Hide previous versions of files with personal info on author

@MatthewDalhousie has uploaded new versions of files which remove personal info on author. See Commons:Help desk#Being respectful to the photographer for context. Would it be possible to hide the previous versions of the picture? The files are:

Cryptic-waveform (talk) 16:07, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Abzeronow (talk) 18:23, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Please speedy delete the files in Category:Temp - Andy Mabbett - speedy deltion, which I just uploaded in error as part of larger batch. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:37, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done. Maybe for next time you can instead add Category:Other speedy deletions (I guess admins will understand it's G7) or better put {{SD|G7}} using VFC. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 18:15, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Also: I created {{My bad upload}} to provide something easier to remember than {{SD|G7}}. - Jmabel ! talk 21:03, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Rename file

Could someone please rename File:Lokrume helmet fragmant (GFB1683) 1.jpg to File:Lokrume helmet fragment (GFB1683) 1.jpg (typo of fragment)? I've added the {{Rename}} template and realize this isn't urgent, but I'm working in the article at the moment and it would be nice to get this sorted out quickly. Thanks, --Usernameunique (talk) 22:07, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Import blocked by spam disallow list

Hello, I'm trying to move w:File:LyricWiki Main Page.png over from wikipedia to commons. However, when I try that, I get

"Import failed

The text you wanted to publish was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a link to a forbidden external site. The following text is what triggered our spam disallow list: lyricwiki.org."

Is this because there is "LyricWiki" in the title? I tried removing all "LyricWiki" mentions in the description and it still dosen't work. Can an admin move this over or help otherwise? Thanks. TheImaCow (talk) 20:43, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Try now, after this. It is because the url is still present in revisions which are imported, even if not present in the live version. --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 21:19, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done @Josve05a and TheImaCow: I went ahead and migrated it. It worked. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:43, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
@The Squirrel Conspiracy and TheImaCow: As far as I can see, the file was originally uploaded to enwiki as non-free under fair use. Do you have evidence that the content of this project is distributed under the free license you specified? --Komarof (talk) 07:22, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Almost all former Wikia/Gamepedia/now Fandom wikis are licenced under CC-BY-3.0 licence. Lyric wiki included. The Main page screenshot here dosen't include any potentially copyrighted lyrics. TheImaCow (talk) 07:48, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

The Squirrel Conspiracy Now I got the same problem again, this time with "corecommerce com", on w:File:WLOV27.png. Would appreciate help.
Is there a better place for such requests on Commons than here, on the admin's noticeboard? TheImaCow (talk) 20:38, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm note sure on the best practices, but I've added the domain to our whitelist as well so you can go ahead and import the file now. --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 21:34, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:Copyright violations

Please advise that the number of files in the category is growing daily throughout the last week. Komarof (talk) 07:14, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

 Doing… Yann (talk) 11:52, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Apparently sock puppet account

The User:Dandanfox should be blocked from uploading as a suckpuppet of User:末路百花残. Reasons:

  1. They are same in uploading infringing pictures of Chinese politicians.
  2. Once User:Dandanfox has uploaded one picture, the picture will be quickly added to any Chinese politician page on zhwiki, by User:末路百花残.

Akishima Yuka (talk) 15:11, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

@Akishima Yuka: what is the problematic behavior here? (Not saying there isn't any, but what is it?) There is no rule against having more than one account as such, and certainly no rule against having one account on Commons and another on a different wiki. (There is a rule against double-voting, engaging deceptively in discussions with your other "self", using a sock to evade sanctions, etc.) - Jmabel ! talk 19:09, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Also, it looks like you didn't notify either of these accounts about reporting them here. I will do so. - Jmabel ! talk 19:11, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
I see now: User:末路百花残 was previously blocked for uploading unfree files, and it appears User:Dandanfox is doing the same. You didn't say that! - Jmabel ! talk 19:15, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done I blocked Dandanfox for socking. All files deleted. Next time, it is better to use COM:ANB. Yann (talk) 10:45, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:1H NMR Ethyl Acetate Coupling shown - 2.png

Can someone close / solve this old deletion request? — Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 21:06, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

@Chem Sim 2001: with what resolution? It looks like two of you are discussing what to do and never reached a clear consensus as to what you want done. - Jmabel ! talk 01:05, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
@Jmabel: My suggestion was to merge the two files by overwriting the original file and since there are no votes against it I would prefer going that way! — Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 14:40, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
I can work on it. Didn't realize there had been a followup comment to my merge and other-changes proposals. DMacks (talk) 14:50, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Delete overwritten file

Hi. I was testing the batchuploader sunflower (https://github.com/fastily/sunflower/) and it didn't check if a file existed so I have accidentally overwritten a file: File:Unidentified_butterfly.jpg. Could somebody delete it? thanks! Amada44  talk to me 10:38, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Yann (talk) 10:40, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

User:Roman Ivanovych Kovalchuk 2

Multiple downloads of the delete file: 1, 2, 3, 4. After Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems/Archive_109#User:Roman_Ivanovych_Kovalchuk and after User_talk:Roman_Ivanovych_Kovalchuk#Copyright_violations user uploaded same file - File:Пам'ятник Тарасові Шевченку (Мухавка).jpg. Микола Василечко (talk) 16:59, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for uploading files. This user should be unblocked only when they fix their files. Yann (talk) 17:32, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Delete a bunch of MediaWiki namespace pages

Hi! I recently changed the central location of several tools I developed from Commons to MediaWiki.org. Therefore, I'd like to request the deletion of the following pages, per being no longer relevant:

I already took care to update all the calls and links to these pages. Thanks! Sophivorus (talk) 22:12, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

@Sophivorus: are you sure it wouldn't be better to do some sort of soft redirects to the analogous pages at www.mediawiki.org? - Jmabel ! talk 22:56, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
@Jmabel Yea you're probably right. I just replaced the content of the pages for comments with a link to the new pages. Thanks for the heads up, cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 12:59, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Uploads by Crimsonalfred2022

Hello Commons admins. It looks like all the uploads of user:Crimsonalfred2022 need to be checked. Some of the images are correctly tagged as PD-Egypt, but many are obviously not public domain and will need to be removed. Sorry I don't have time to help with this; I am already very busy doing copyright cleanup at en.wiki.Thanks. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:23, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

 Comment I warned this user, and nominate several files for deletion. Their use of PD-Egypt is indeed abusive. Yann (talk) 13:23, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Requesting closure on a CfD

Could someone please close Commons:Categories for discussion/2023/10/Category:YASHICA FX-7 SUPER? I'm too involved to close it. I've been fending off some incompetence/vandalism (probably the former, and I'd rather not call the person out) on the CfD and the affected category, and I'd like to see the thing closed so we can simply move the category to where it belongs and I stop having to deal with this. Thanks in advance. - Jmabel ! talk 18:43, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Abzeronow (talk) 19:05, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Cleanup needed, mop and CU tool

Please see Commons:Deletion requests/File:Former pharma executive Richard Waygood, posing with swastika armband in Las Vegas.jpg. I left a note there on socking, and just now I confirmed that the "other" contributor on that page, Jolenko1, is now also confirmed and blocked on en-wiki. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 02:42, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

@Drmies: Please post evidence via COM:RFCU.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:54, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: To what end? User:Jolenko1 is already globally indef-blocked as a sock. - Jmabel ! talk 18:39, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
In fairness, Jolenko1 and NutcrackerMoench were not blocked on the Commons at the time Jeff G. made that comment. Jmabel's underlying concern, however, remains correct: both accounts were already blocked on en.wiki wiki (02:38, 9 January 2024 and 02:34, 9 January 2024, respectively) and indeed with rationales including "{{checkuserblock-account}}". This is exactly where Drmies should have posted (per COM:RFCU: "Checkuser is a last resort for difficult cases; pursue other options first, such as posting on the administrator's noticeboard" (link in original)). The (terse) referral to RFCU was not appropriate for this case. Эlcobbola talk 18:58, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
@Эlcobbola: Drmies asked for [use of the] "CU tool" and did not mention having already CU'd and blocked the users on enwiki. I'm sorry I took them at face value. Now, I see that their enwiki user page is categorized in en:Category:Wikipedians who should probably stop screwing around with categories, lest they draw unwanted attention from the Categories Police.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:58, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
And? You give more weight to a section header than COM:RFCU guidance? You give more weight to en.wiki user page categorization than user rights? (Drmies is a CU (!!!)) How do you reconcile "I confirmed that the 'other' contributor on that page, Jolenko1, is now also confirmed and blocked on en-wiki" (underline added) with your purport "Drmies [...] did not mention having already CU'd and blocked the users on enwiki"? Did you even read the comment, or just hastily and mechanically refer them to RFCU? 16:10, 10 January 2024 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by elcobbola (talk • contribs)
@Эlcobbola: I'm sorry, I didn't check their credentials on enwiki before making my initial reply. It looked like they were a regular enwiki user who had checked that two users we share with enwiki were blocked there and wanted Admins and Checkusers here to do something about it. They did not write that they had done the CU and blocking themselves. I read things literally and take things at face value until evidence convinces me otherwise.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 22:45, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
@Jmabel: Sorry, I don't see them as being "globally indef-blocked as a sock." (whatever that means), or locked, either.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:02, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Hiding history/File History edit

Hello there, as per request on my discussion at Slovak Wikipedia, I would like to ask, if it is possible to hide the original author's name on this file. This information is supposedly not correct and the author does not wish for their name to appear in there. (If necessary, I can ask the person to write it to us through OTRS.) The information appears correctly in the Summary, but lists the original author's name in the Comment in File History. Thank you for the response. (Also please if possible, @ me, just in case.) KormiSK (talk) 11:36, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

@KormiSK: Do I understand correctly that what you are asking for is to suppress the early portion of the history, up to and including 8 October 2015‎? - Jmabel ! talk 18:18, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
@Jmabel: Precisely. Will this also disappear in the File History portion of the page? KormiSK (talk) 18:22, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
@KormiSK: Not automatically, but I can suppress it there as well. Thanks for clarifying. - Jmabel ! talk 18:32, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
@Jmabel: Then yes, that is exactly what I am requesting. :) KormiSK (talk) 18:40, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done - Jmabel ! talk 18:49, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Contest score review

Hi, I opened a topic in the scores discussion page named "Ai images?" For the monthly photo challenge of November named "Bicycle". I ask the review of a picture posted..this is one picture that was placed in of the winning ones, that imho could be considered maybe a computer generated image. I am not sure 100% so I won't cast any finger until you tell me if it's fair what I am asking here. Is in my rights to ask the review of a picture for checking if it's really a photo or a Ai image? What can we do if one of us has this doubt? And if it's a Ai, why has not been identified as Ai picture ? And let win? I apologise in advance if this comes as inappropriate but after all our previous discussion I believe it makes sense. The pic looks not a picture taken by a human, hence I am sure I have at least the right to ask for a review. Thanks Oncewerecolours (talk) 06:28, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

I read here https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bicycle_at_evening_sunset.jpg that the image has been already nominated for deletion. I think it's fair. I am fine with that , sorry i didnt see that post. However I hope that real "photos" only will be allowed in the photography contests for the future. AI images can compete in their own contests as discussed Here Oncewerecolours (talk) 06:49, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

User:Đại Việt quốc

Pls revoke all of his rights because he's globally locked from logging in all Wikimedia projects, this also mean he can't even use the right he has on this project on January 1. DefenderTienMinh07 (talk) 06:24, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 15:16, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Changes to Special:Tags

Could an administrator please change the tag for "computer-aided-tagging-revert" such that it can also be "Applied manually by users and bots". Background is that I'm planning to use that tag for this: User:SchlurcherBot/Mass revert computer-aided tagging (further details are also availible on this page). Thanks Schlurcher (talk) 13:45, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

I would suggest to use a new tag for this for easier differentiation between manual and bot revert. GPSLeo (talk) 15:57, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
That would of course work as well. Could you set this up and let me know the tag name? Schlurcher (talk) 16:27, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Could someone please generate a tag and set up the corresponding messages?
Thank you. --Schlurcher (talk) 21:35, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
@Multichill: Can you help, it seems we lack admins with experience generating tags? Thanks --Schlurcher (talk) 16:44, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
@Schlurcher: ✓ Created. Let me know once you are finished so I can disable it for future use. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 17:11, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
@CptViraj: Thanks. I hope to remember to ping you once this is finished so it can be deactivated again. --Schlurcher (talk) 20:54, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Possible POTD error

This how it looks on my end - FlightTime (open channel) 17:11, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@FlightTime: It's the picture, see File:Caracas building.jpg. -- CptViraj (talk) 17:19, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
OMG lol, now I see that its a bunch of windows :P Thanx. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:21, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
@CptViraj: Can you delete the screenshot please. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:21, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Done. No problem :D -- CptViraj (talk) 17:24, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for what you do! - FlightTime (open channel) 17:37, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

User:GabrielCQX002

Multiple uploads from copyrighted website after multiple notifications regarding copyvio warnings. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 14:47, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done. I warned the user – (s)he was not warned previously. Taivo (talk) 15:21, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done. Now one week block after uploading next copyvio. Taivo (talk) 10:43, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Request to update upload wizard

Hi there, the second session of Wiki Loves Birds is going to start on February 1, 2024. So, I need help updating categories in the upload wizard of Wiki Loves Birds. - Nirmal Dulal (talk) 09:44, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@Nirmal Dulal: Do you want to change 2019 to 2024 in campaign? Additionally, do you have {{Wiki Loves Birds 2024}} ready to be created? ─ The Aafī (talk) 10:05, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
@TheAafi: Yes I want to change 2019 to 2024. I created {{Wiki Loves Birds 2024}} plz check and correct the error too. - Nirmal Dulal (talk) 10:33, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
@Nirmal Dulal: I changed 2019 to 2024, and disabled the wizard until it starts. I have asked @Romaine to check if there are any other things to be taken care of. They are a master in this. ─ The Aafī (talk) 10:05, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
@TheAafi Thank you. @Romaine is the creator of that wizard, hope he will take care. --Nirmal Dulal (talk) 13:28, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Inscrutable revisions by a user

I have no clue why, but Fry1989 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  keeps on changing a sort key from the useful "Variations" to just "V" for no discernible reason. E.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category%3ASVG_variations_on_flags_of_Western_Sahara&diff=841185764&oldid=823447654 Is there something I'm missing here? Do we have a local policy that we should only use a single letter for sort keys or something? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:53, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@Koavf I have no clue why this is being done either. I see no need to jump to AN; asking on their talk page should have been sufficient. But since we're already here, I've notified Fry on their talk page for you, as is required. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 22:43, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
I apologize: you're correct that escalating here is skipping a step or two and I also didn't post about this thread as well. I thought I had post to his talk several weeks ago when this nonsense started, but I was mistaken. Pardon me. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:46, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Do we have a policy of using a single letter? No. Do we have a policy of using a full word either? Also no. The question should not be why I shortened it. I did so as part of a much wider categorisation drive affecting hundreds of related categories. The question should be why Koavf is so insistent that a single letter is insufficient. Except where very specific sortkeying is required, a single letter is generally sufficient and that remains my position. Category:SVG flags of Western Sahara only has the one subcategory, the sortkey does not need to be so precise. The letter V accurately sorts Category:SVG variations on flags of Western Sahara under the letter V. Maybe if it had to compete with several other categories and V alone caused them to fall out of alphabetical order, using a full sortkey would make more sense, but it does not as of now. There is also the case of Koavf having insulted me. Fry1989 eh? 17:14, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
if i understand mediawiki correctly, the two ways of sorting here are essentially:
  • VariationsSVG variations on flags of Western Sahara
  • VSVG variations on flags of Western Sahara
as this user has pointed out, "Maybe if it had to compete with several other categories and V alone caused them to fall out of alphabetical order..."
it's more natural to sort with the full word. any benefit a single letter has, the full word has, but the single letter cannot pre-empt potential future confusion. RZuo (talk) 17:22, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Hoping to get a different admin to follow up on a discussion

In the discussion at User talk:Björn Söderlund, Sw3dPix#Category:Photo challenge of Björn Söderlund, Sw3dPix, 2023, User:Björn Söderlund, Sw3dPix seems to think I've done something wrong and harmful to Category:Photo challenge of Björn Söderlund, Sw3dPix, 2023. I totally fail to see the problem. Clearly I'm not the one to follow this up further. Would someone else please take this on? - Jmabel ! talk 17:44, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

They were missing their rainbows which are apparently in this category that they themselves created. ─ The Aafī (talk) 19:27, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Protected edit requests is backlogged

Category:Commons protected edit requests is significantly backlogged, to the extent that a request I made to correct a factual error in the caption of File:JAPAN AIRLINES A350-941 JA13XJ HND 30-APR-2022.jpg (which was protected due to appearing on the main page of multiple Wikipedias) went unanswered for over 11 days. The protection has since expired so I've made the change myself, and luckily the error wasn't particularly consequential, but this is not always going to be the case. Picking one request at random, File talk:PL road sign T-34.svg has been awaiting administrator attention for nearly five years. Either this needs to improve or the system needs to be marked as historical and people directed to request changes by some other method that admins actually pay attention to. Thryduulf (talk) 10:37, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

This sometimes turns out to be a huge headache. This should have a simple solution. Several edit-requests happen to be now in archives such as this, for example, Talk:Main Page/Archive 4#Images Sounds Videos ... and? ─ The Aafī (talk) 19:34, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
There are several what seem to be uncontroversial flag requests that were made a while ago (some for modifications to the file, some to the description page) as well that have gone unanswered for more than a year. HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 15:17, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
Any idea why {{Qfi}} doesn't get expanded at Commons talk:Questionable Flickr images#hans castorp2010 (and other places on that page)? User:LX, you were the last to edit that template so you may have a clue. - Jmabel ! talk 21:15, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
I did a few of these, but it is very hard sometimes to tell which are controversial and which aren't. @HapHaxion: , I realize you aren't an admin, but if you can point at which requests you think are uncontroversial, you might more easily get admin attention for those. - Jmabel ! talk 21:20, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
Based on what I can see off a preliminary search there are a some files that just need the description page edited (Flag of Poland, Flag of Peru, X logo 2023) while others seem to have suggested coding changes (Flag of Somaliland, Emblem of Vietnam and the Olympic rings without rims), both of which either with consensus or without opposition. HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 21:33, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
Flag of Poland, Flag of Peru and X logo 2023 have been ✓ Done. Abzeronow (talk) 21:50, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
please also edit MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-HotCat.js#Could_a_warning_popup_appear_when_adding_a_DAB_cat_while_using_HotCat?. RZuo (talk) 22:06, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
I believe that takes some higher (or at least different) level of permission even than being an admin, because I cannot edit that page. - Jmabel ! talk 22:31, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

I try to peck away at these when I can, but most of them require comfort working with SVGs or complex templates and that's not me. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 23:54, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Ameisenigel

Hi, kindly remove patroller rights from Ameisenigel (talk · contribs), as they're promoted to license reviewer see here. Thanks C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 11:44, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done ─ The Aafī (talk) 12:09, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Informing you about the Mental Health Resource Center and inviting any comments you may have

Hello Commons Administrators! I work in the Community Resilience and Sustainability team of the Wikimedia Foundation. The Mental Health Resource Center is a group of pages on Meta-wiki aimed at supporting the mental wellbeing of users in our community.

The Mental Health Resource Center launched in August 2023. The goal is to review the comments and suggestions to improve the Mental Health Resource Center each quarter. As there have not been many comments yet, I’d like to invite you to provide comments and resource suggestions as you are able to do so on the Mental Health Resource Center talk page. The hope is this resource expands over time to cover more languages and cultures. Thank you! Best, JKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:05, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Error messages when deleting files

Are other admins also experiencing frequent error messages when trying to delete pages? I need to try multiple times to get a file deleted. GPSLeo (talk) 07:40, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

No, I do not have any issues. Ymblanter (talk) 21:24, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
I recently faced an error once. ─ The Aafī (talk) 21:25, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Inconsistently, but yeah. Nonstandard characters are the only consistent trigger I've noticed. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:44, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Requesting semi-protection for File:Cumshot.webm

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 18:45, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done for six months. Abzeronow (talk) 18:56, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Add File:Romuald Twardowski.jpg to Category:Romuald Twardowski

I've created Category:Romuald Twardowski and wanted to add File:Romuald Twardowski.jpg to it. However the picture is now on the main page of the Polish Wikipedia and because of it I can't edit it. Could someone please delete the categories in File:Romuald Twardowski.jpg and add it to Category:Romuald Twardowski (Category:1930 births and Category:2024 deaths is added by Wikidata and the category I made is already in Category:Male composers from Poland)? Swam pl (talk) 15:33, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Accidentally forgot a comma Another mistake, I meant the colon Swam pl (talk) 15:36, 20 January 2024 (UTC) in category link. Sorry for this, just fixed it! --Swam pl (talk) 15:34, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
@Swam pl ✓ Done. I have removed Category:Male composers from Poland and added Category:Romuald Twardowski. Best regards, ─ The Aafī (talk) 15:54, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
@TheAafi: , thank you! I've also connected the category to Wikidata and thus Category:1930 births and Category:2024 deaths were added to the category along with some other categories. I think these two categories can be removed from File:Romuald Twardowski.jpg? Swam pl (talk) 15:59, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done. @Swam pl, let me know if you need help with anything else. ─ The Aafī (talk) 16:01, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! Swam pl (talk) 16:07, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Fostera12

Reporting Fostera12 (talk · contribs) for multiple copyvio uploads after warnings. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 09:14, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done. One week block. Taivo (talk) 10:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Additional eyes requested on Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Police arresting Donald Trump (Midjourney)

The discussion there has gotten heated. I've asked both parties to disengage, but since I'm involved as a !voter, it'd be nice to have other eyes watching this. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 10:01, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Request

Hello, can an admin please look through the MUTCD images at Category:Media requiring renaming - target already exists? It's pretty tiring to G6 the redirect, wait for an admin to delete it and then move the file. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - useless contributions} 17:16, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@Matrix ✓ Done. Taken care of. Best regards, ─ The Aafī (talk) 18:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

User:YANKERS

YANKERS (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

This editor created an account and immediately began attempting to defame an individual on en.wikipedia. As part of that, their only upload has been File:Garry the liar.jpg. There is no value to this image and it needs to be deleted. Further, I recommend blocking the account. See edit filter log from en.wikipedia for this user. Yes, I know, it's not Commons activity. But, the intent is clear. --Hammersoft (talk) 01:48, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@Hammersoft: I deleted their one Commons upload. You seem not to have notified them that you were reporting them to COM:AN. - Jmabel ! talk 02:25, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you. You're correct. There was no edit notice to that effect...and I see it now in notes at the top. --Hammersoft (talk) 02:27, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

This is a meta question on where to position a much larger text about a serious fake problem we have

Very short: Since some months, I have come across a larger number of fakes/faux/phantasy-augmented uploaded political symbols, flags etc. (worse: produced in good faith, most likely) which are to a large part very hard to identify as such and are also not marked - hence many seem to be real. To lay this out, I want to produce a longer text with examples. Where should I post that when done? Pittigrilli (talk) 20:18, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Village pump is probably the best place. Yann (talk) 20:49, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
+1 - Jmabel ! talk 20:37, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. (finished from my side here) Pittigrilli (talk) 21:07, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

DeletionsNeeded

Could someone please close here? SergeWoodzing (talk) 14:16, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

No reason you should get to jump the line (I was doing deletion requests from November), but I'm on it. —holly {chat} 17:15, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Admin move request

Please move back Category:Aryan Ghasemi (1985–) to Category:Aryan Ghasemi, as it was an error (per discussion hereL Category talk:Aryan Ghasemi (1985–)#Move). The move needs administrator access due to technical reasons. Thanks, HeminKurdistan (talk) 20:39, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

VRT removal request

File:Estación de Cotos. Tren de la Serie 442 de Renfe. España, Spain.jpg (hist • logs • abuse log)

Please remove the unblurred version of the file per ticket:2024012510012205. Thank you! Bencemac (talk) 16:59, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bencemac, ✓ Done and VRT request closed. Kadı Message 18:34, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Bencemac (talk) 19:52, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
What's the deal with the ticket? Usually we dont blur faces because of that Trade (talk) 23:58, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
It was a courtesy request, fulfilled by the Graphic Lab. Bencemac (talk) 08:44, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Ideas wanted to tackle Freedom of Panorama issue

Hello all, I hope this use of the Noticeboard is still legitimate (if not, I apologise in advance). We are looking for ideas to tackle the problem of media deleted because of Freedom of Panorama-related issues, and we're looking especially for admins and people who are knowledgeable in this issue to intervene. If you are interested, please join the discussion. Thanks in advance! Sannita (WMF) (talk) 17:01, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

FYI: Spam articles at Hausa Wikipedia with images here

Hi. Just to note that Hausa Wikipedia is getting a steady stream of articles created on Indian subjects usually businesses or people, and typically with images uploaded here. I am assisting the admins at haWP, and deleting the images here as they are spam or vanity spam. Each of the accounts is new and gets one or two edits. The typical rubbish we see for paid editing.  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:59, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Do you mind nominating the images for speedy deletion? Trade (talk) 00:25, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
@Trade: Where I can identify that they are out of scope, I have just been deleting them, or if I think that another pair of eyes or multiple pairs of eyes, I poke them into the respective queues.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:41, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
A checkuser was undertaken at haWP by stewards and there was found to be sockpuppetry at play. @Krd and Elcobbola: Would either of you mind contacting the stewards, getting the detail and see what abuse may have take place here. m:special:permalink/26163242 Thanks if you can.  — billinghurst sDrewth 07:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

MCGAMER YOUTUBE

MCGAMER YOUTUBE (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Anyone wanna tell me why this user were blocked for three months? As far as i know he haven't uploaded any copyvio since his first block --Trade (talk) 23:59, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

To close the loop Special:DeletedContributions/MCGAMER_YOUTUBE and Special:blocklist/MCGAMER_YOUTUBE  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:45, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
@Taivo: was the blocking admin. Pinging them. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 00:09, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done? I blocked the user due to request in Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems/Archive 110#User:MCGAMER YOUTUBE. Now I unblocked the user. Taivo (talk) 10:17, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

The majority of PD-algorithm uploads by new users aren't AI. What should we do about it?

I've been working through the results of abuse filter 298 and the overwhelming majority of uploads are not AI art. Working through the last 500 or so (from January 12 through today), my back of the envelope estimate is:

  • 85% are non-AI images where the uploader is not the creator. These have been or will shortly be deleted as copyvios/no source/no permission.
  • 5% are non-AI images where the uploader is the creator. These often have both PD-algo and another license until either they or a patroller fix the file page.
  • 5% are non-AI images where the uploader is not the creator, but the file can be kept because of PD-textlogo, PD-old, etcetera.
  • 5% are actually AI images.

Making matters worse, a lot of the AI images that are uploaded by new users aren't within scope. There is lots of debate about AI images and scope in DRs, but there's broad agreement that files with rendering issues so bad that the files can't be used on sister projects are generally out of scope, and a lot of the uploads are things like this clock with two Xs or this illustration of Shakespeare where none of the anatomy, architecture, or text makes sense.

On the one hand, Filter 298 is working exactly as intended, as patrollers are able to use it to neutralize a large amount of copyvios. On the other hand, I suspect that most of the time, people are just clicking the checkbox in the upload wizard because it's there and lets uploaders bypass having to answer other questions about the file's authorship. It being a prominent default option may be doing more harm than good.

Should we remove the AI checkbox from the upload wizard or delay where/change how AI can be selected as an option there? The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:00, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

That's as clear-cut a case as there could possibly be. 95% incorrect, and much of that 5% useless. The AI checkbox should be removed from Upload Wizard entirely, or at least heavily restricted (30/500 would be my vote). Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:37, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
@The Squirrel Conspiracy: Did your "PD-aglo" mean "PD-algorithm" or something else? - Jmabel ! talk 00:16, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
Yes, I meant PD-algorithm. I use PD-algo as a shorthand because I can't always remember how to spell "algorithm". The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 02:49, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
even as a shorthand, "PD-algo" would have been a lot clearer. - Jmabel ! talk 19:20, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
That's what I thought I was typing. As I said, I cannot seem to spell that word correctly. Fixed! The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:28, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
@Sannita (WMF): in case you are not following this page, probably a thread you will want to follow. - Jmabel ! talk 00:16, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
@Pi.1415926535: still, if it is (as seems to be indicated above) an 85% accurate predictor of copyvios, it might be worth having. Sort of like the discovery of penicillin. - Jmabel ! talk 00:19, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
FWIW, I've noticed this as well from patrolling Special:NewFiles with no consideration of edit filters--erroneous PD-algorithm claims have become very common. In case it's related, there has also been a noticeable increase in bogus {{PD-USGov}} claims--not the typical federal v. state conflation, but use with images that have no relationship to any government entity (e.g., movie posters, random Internet images, etc.) Whatever change was made to the UploadWizard should be reconsidered. Эlcobbola talk 19:33, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Has there even been a serious discussion as to how to organize the contributions of flickr users?

Has there even been a serious discussion as to how to organize the contributions of flickr users?

I can't remember when I started following the examples of other contributiors, and putting images from prolific flickr users into categories like: Category:Files from jqpublic Flickr stream. It seemed like these could be useful categories, as those flickr people kept making new images available under free licences. So, I started creating new categories, of the form Category:Files from jqpublic Flickr stream.

Then I noticed that some people had started to move categories of the form Category:Files from jqpublic Flickr stream to Category:Photographs from jqpublic. They were doing so:

  1. Without citing a policy, guideline, or discussion.
  2. Without using {{Category redirect}} to make the old category point to the new one.

In my opinion, this was never a good idea, for several reasons.

Some prolific photographers, including myself, have directly uploaded some of our images directly from our homes, have had some of our images uploaded from flickr, and have ho other images uploaded from other sites, like Panoramia. I'm an example. In my own case I think the best organization would have been to have had Category:Files from booledozer flickrstream and Category:Files from old York guy Panoramia stream be subcategories of Category:Photographs from Geo Swan. Category:Photographs from Geo Swan should not contain images that are in its subcatories.

I think I have seen other categories structures, for flickr users, in parallel, or in competition with the Category:Files from jqpublic Flickr stream hierarchy.

Influential Unix Guru Henry Spencer had a button he wore to Unix conferences that said, "The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many different ones to choose among.". Truer words were never spoken. We should have one standard for how ot categorize photos from flickr users.

My apologies if this has already been discussed, and settled, and I just couldn't find that guideline.

and now, what to do about it?

Ted Nelson said that the purpose of computers is human freedom. Sorting photos from flickr, or at least those that were properly uploaded to use standard information templates, should have an author field that contains a link to the original flickr person's original flickr-ID. And we could set a robot to work that could work quietly, in the background, and take care of making sure every image from flickr was in the category we agreed upon. Is there some reason we haven't done this? Geo Swan (talk) 02:53, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

At least one reason would be that I, for one, don't want a category that somehow singles out which of my images came from Flickr, and I suspect I'm not alone in that. (If there are no significant number of others who feel that way, I guess I'll yield, but I've always tried to avoid having what seem to me to be "vanity categories" for my photos. The only one at all that I have is a user category for my few videos, just because I wanted to have easy access to them myself.) - Jmabel ! talk 03:43, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
  • I too didn't, initially, start a category for my flickr images, out of modesty. I think that is what you are saying here, right?
But, a Category:Files from jqpublic Flickr stream should transclude {{Flickr user}}, and so supply links to jqpublic's flickr photostream, and to their albums. That link to their albums is extremely useful. Many flickr contributors have some albums of private events, like birthday parties, that include few, or zero, in scope images, while other albums to exotic locations, are packed full of in-scope images. It's possible your flickr albums, similarly, are a mix of highly in-scope images, and less useful images, or images of no use whatsoever.
If modesty is your concern, could you allow the rest of us to take advantage of the album sorting you already engaged in, so we can pick from your most useful photos?
Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 05:16, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Anything on my Flickr stream that I consider likely to belong on Commons (about 10,000 images) is on Commons. Some of the rest I have not licensed in a way compatible with Commons (either because it is more personal, would not meet Commons' strict scrutiny on derivative work, or because when similar materials made their way to Commons I disliked the objectifying categories added to the images); the remainder because either they are artistic rather than documentary images, or if I took (say) 70 pictures at a concert by a band, there might be a couple that I thought were worth having on Commons, but I put the whole batch on Flickr. I know there are people who are so inclusionist they'd want every damn shot I took to be here on Commons, but I don't see any reason to encourage them.
For work I've put on both sites, it's close to random which they go on first. For work I first uploaded there I usually (though not always) do any copy with Flickr2Commons and then use VFC to batch-edit them to say something like "author=Joe Mabel, on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US"; if I do a completely separate upload here but I did an earlier upload to Flickr then I'll credit along the lines of "Joe Mabel; first uploaded to Flickr on account Joe Mabel" so no one can mistake it for a copyvio. So I'm not hiding my Flickr account at all. I just don't see any reason to have a giant category (or several) for my work. - Jmabel ! talk 07:30, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the clarification.
Do you agree that anyone who moves a category like Category:Files from jqpublic Flickr stream to Category:Photographs from jqpublic really should leave a redirect? Should a category like Category:Photographs from jqpublic transclude {{Flickr user}}?
Once there is a consensus over how flickr images from prolific flickr users should be categorized, do you agree we should set a robot to make sure all of those flickr images get put in that specific category? It is currently well below 50 percent, maybe below 20%. Geo Swan (talk) 14:54, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
I really have very little opinion on setting up categories for non-notable photographers. I'm not opposed to it, but I'd never put any effort into it. - Jmabel ! talk 22:15, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
@Geo Swan: There was a discussion at Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/08/Category:Files transferred from Flickr user rodrigoparedes. Now, it looks like I transferred all 1129 photos in Category:Photographs by Rodrigo Paredes; I only transferred 931 of them, and I am not happy about the difference (files transferred by Sturm). Category:Photographs by Flickr photographer is organized with differentiation by photographer fullname. Category:Files transferred by User:Jeff G. from Flickr is currently haphazard, sorry (my Category:Files transferred from Flickr user governadoreduardocampos was renamed to Category:Files from governadoreduardocampos Flickr stream as the result of Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/08/Category:Files transferred from Flickr user governadoreduardocampos based on names in Category:Flickr streams after I had created that cat and Category:Files transferred from Flickr user rodrigoparedes). Category:Flickr streams has 12 subcats (including Category:Photographs by Flickr photographer) and is also organized with differentiation by Flickr shortname.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 19:57, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
Summary, so far...
  1. Okay, so, I think no one has defended the practice of moving a category full of images to a new name, without leaving a redirect.
  2. I don't think anyone has defended the claim that there was a policy, guideline, or meaningful consensus to move categories like Category:Files from jqpublic Flickr stream to new names, like Category:Photographs from jqpublic.
  3. I said the {{Flickr user}} template is extremely useful, if you are a fan of a flickr user's photos, if you think additional albums of theirs might contain more in scope images. However, I asserted the {{Flickr user}} template didn't belong on categories like Category:Photographs from jqpublic, that could contain images from jqpublic from other sites, or that they uploaded themselves, directly from their camera or memory stick. No one else has weighed in on this issue.
  4. I am going to repeat what Unix Guru Henry Spencer said, "The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many different ones to choose among.". I am going to repeat we should not have two different ways for naming these categories.
    1. I think categories like Category:Files from jqpublic Flickr stream were here first.
    2. I think there are more categories full of flickr images of this form than there are of categories like Category:Photographs from jqpublic.
    3. It seems no one ever made a specific attempt to explain why the "photographs from" category names should replace the more specific category names...

Victorian Turkish baths

Is there by some chance an admin (or other experienced user) with either knowledge of or interest in Victorian Turkish baths who might take over at Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/02/Category:Victorian Turkish baths? We seem to have a user who is a legitimate subject matter expert, but with very little knowledge of Commons. We need someone who can either guide him through properly setting up this category (and possibly subcategories) or just take over and do it themself (or somewhere between the two). I'm the one who noticed the problematic category, but I don't think I bring more to this than a random knowledgeable Commons user. Thanks in advance. - Jmabel ! talk 03:14, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Having had no response here, I'll take this to the VP. - Jmabel ! talk 19:53, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Inappropriate caption

(Copied from COM:Village pump)

Last week, IP user User:196.188.120.153 edited the English caption for File:Ethiopia Plate of portable altar.jpg to say "ITS OFFENSIVE AND WILL BE PUNISHED". This is clearly not acceptable, but I'm not sure what should be done. There are religious sensibilities involved here. For some context, see this discussion on the English Wikipedia help desk, and recent edit summaries in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tabot&action=history .--ColinFine (talk) 15:26, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

I've reverted the text. I would suggest protecting the page and asking the IP editor to maybe discuss this reasonably first, or else simply blocking any suitable IP space. We might question how important it is to test someone's religious sensibilities like this, but "WILL BE PUNISHED" is a clear threat and I'm tired of those. We work by debate here (as badly as we are at that), not religious dogma. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:00, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
I'd been wondering about that image, as well as File:Äthiopien_Tabot_Linden-Museum_90290.jpg, for reasons I've explained at the English Wikipedia help desk (linked above). I will note that this artifact no longer appears in the MNW's collection, or at least not via its website (link). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:27, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
Added semiprotection for File:Ethiopia Plate of portable altar.jpg, added the other to my watchlist so if it needs to be protected, I can do so quickly. Abzeronow (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
If we want to generate a template for this (e.g. Template:Religious sensitivities), this might be an appropriate image for the left side of the template. It is legible at the relevant size:

Jmabel ! talk 20:19, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
We might want a warning along the lines of the ones we have for Communist and Nazi symbols. Yes, I realize the case is not exactly parallel. - Jmabel ! talk 00:24, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, I can see a warning about religious sensitivities being useful. Abzeronow (talk) 21:58, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
To go one more step: a warning template like this would probably be a good thing, but there is really no admin issue here. - Jmabel ! talk 02:02, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Getting further afield from the original captioning issue, I'd suggest there could/should be a licensing issue for images of objects with dubious provenance. As of yet I'm unable to find any relevant policy, guideline, or consensus. I know this isn't the place for discussing that, but where is it? COM:VP? -- Gyrofrog (talk) 14:14, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
@Gyrofrog: I'm not sure what you are driving at. Commons doesn't normally refuse in-scope images for non-copyright reasons. There are a lot of objects of questionable provenance in a lot of museums. That may be an issue for ownership of the object, but not for an image. - 19:53, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
@Jmabel: What I'm getting at is that if an object is (for example) war loot, and the museum where it's located puts it on display, then without clearer/better provenance, taking a picture of it and asserting "public domain" (or some Creative Commons license etc.) becomes problematic. Perhaps not legally problematic (or perhaps it is?), but ethically. I'm imagining a scenario where someone borrows an exotic sports car, then finds out the person who loaned out the car smuggled it in & that the car may have been stolen in the first place. But then the driver keeps borrowing the car (and then loans it out for a photo shoot). In some places, that's legal; I'd argue that it's wrong, anywhere. Again, this probably isn't the place for it... I guess I'll take this to COM:VP. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:03, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Problematic, but not a copyright issue. - Jmabel ! talk 20:13, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
If you wish to discuss changing the terms of "licensing [...] for images of objects with dubious provenance", then the appropriate place is with your elected representative, not on Commons. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:46, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Sohan514

User page should be deleted for promotion. -- Nintendofan885T&Cs apply 10:56, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done by Gbawden. Yann (talk) 12:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

User talk:BayShoreBabe

I just blocked this user on en-wiki; their images are vandalism as well. Drmies (talk) 02:22, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

 Not done. I do not think so. You can nominate uploads for regular deletion one by one, if you consider them vandalistic. Taivo (talk) 16:17, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Please block AntiCompositeBot

@AntiCompositeBot is malfunctioning. It's trying to find files those foes not contain copright info, but it looks at only templates and this results to wrong alarms for example look at the history of File:Letters SVG?2Esvg.png (please don't say something like "that's a bad filename", i explained the reason in the file page). I didn't put a copyright template to that page because i can't found a suitable template (the template that's added by the wizard is unsuitable). Until that bug is solved by the operator of the bot, please Special:Block/AntiCompositeBot. RuzDD (talk) 23:38, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

 Not done The MediaWiki software (and bots) can only detect the presence of a license when it's a defined license template. For this reason, plaintext is not suitable for licensing. If you have not made substantial changes to a file, then you should simply copy the license from the original image.
I have deleted this particular file as an unneeded and unused duplicate. Unless there are on-wiki rendering issues with an SVG, we don't need a (almost unusably tiny) PNG copy generated from the SVG. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:03, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
This deletion process is for which speedy deletion criteria or discussion @Pi.1415926535? RuzDD (talk) 00:05, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Since this is not duplicete: one of PNG while the other is SVG. RuzDD (talk) 00:07, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
F8. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:07, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Probably there's an edit conflict happened and you could not see my second message @Pi.1415926535. RuzDD (talk) 00:08, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Unless there is a specific on-wiki use case (such as the known text rendering bugs), there is rarely a need to create a PNG copy of an existing SVG file. The MediaWiki software generates PNG versions of all SVG files (which any external reuser can use). Your file had no valid on-wiki use, especially at such a small size that pixelation was obvious. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:16, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
I can read the text says "SVG" easily. MW engine cannot generate thumbnails smaller than 2kb in most cases. Most of icons are in much smaller resolutions. This file is not very important for me but i think that's weird.
Anyway, i think plain text licenses can be determined by robots. For example, if there's a phrase like "public domain" i think bots can consider the file as publicdomain. RuzDD (talk) 00:21, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
  1. @RuzDD: A bot cannot readily tell the difference between "this file is in the public domain" and (for example) "this file derives from several sources, some of which are in the public domain" etc. There is no way it can be programmed to always pick up context.
  2. You've repeatedly complained about how mediawiki renders PNG from SVG, and repeatedly been told there is a consensus to the contrary, and that if you want to change this you are going to have to change the consensus, not make ad hoc files on your own. I believe last time this came up you were told to take your case to Commons:Village pump/Technical. - Jmabel ! talk 01:44, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
    1: You're right. 2: I understood now, thanks. RuzDD (talk) 01:48, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

IP issue

Looks like we have a troll, at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Qantas Boeing 707 and Boeing 747-200 at Longreach's Qantas Founders Outback Museum.jpg. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:03, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: I blocked the IP for one month for making nonsense DRs. ─ Aafī (talk) 07:38, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Deletion request made in error

I requested deletion of a file in error. The file is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Windermere_on_the_Mount_-_London,_ON_6-07-17_2-56-47_PM.jpg. I thought it was not in the public domain, but I see that the user who uploaded it was the creator. Please accept my apologies and do not delete this file. Thank you. Marygk86 (talk) 22:47, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

I think this one was also in error, maybe more. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:49, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done The DR that Marygk86 mentioned has been closed. Abzeronow (talk) 22:52, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
This one too. I didn't upload it, but most of the photos on Flickr by the Sisters of St. Joseph were public domain (some have since been removed). I'm not sure Marygk86 is completely aware of the deletion policy. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:55, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
@Magnolia677: , I've commented on both DRs you linked to. There's no urgent need to close them. Abzeronow (talk) 23:01, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
@Abzeronow: That editor opened their account three days ago and has been busy nominating for deletion valid files uploaded from the Sisters of St. Joseph Flicker account. I believe most or all these deletion nominations were in error. Should some remediation be applied, lest these wonderful photos be deleted in error? Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:08, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
@Magnolia677: She's the archivist there; they inadvertently had put a bunch of "orphaned" files on Flickr, not understanding that if you don't know who took the photo, that doesn't mean you can publish it. Other people uploaded them to Commons based on this accidental Flickrwashing. Please take up any discusssion of this at Commons:Deletion requests/Files from Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada, where I've consolidated these requests. - Jmabel ! talk 02:04, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

I have set up Commons:Deletion requests/Files from Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada to bring all of these discussions together, and on Commons:Deletion requests/2024/02/10 and Commons:Deletion requests/2024/02/11 I've grouped the 100+ separate requests into collapsible areas. If someone else could close those 100+ separate requests as superseded by the centralized discussion, that would be good. Or if you think there is a better way to do it (redirection maybe?) that's fine, too I've now worked on this for several hours, it is Saturday evening, and I have plans in the material world.

I have not had time to place individual notices on each file page. Sorry. As I say, I've done hours of cleanup, but I'm out the door. - Jmabel ! talk 02:04, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Labicanus

Hello, I noticed this editor's two contributions on the English-language Wikipedia are consistent with a sockpuppet of Livioandronico2013, but in this case, their substitution of images relating to the Funivia di San Marino were not unreasonable. Apologies if this isn't notifiable. IgnatiusofLondon (talk) 12:46, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done. already indefinitely blocked. Taivo (talk) 18:24, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
@Taivo and Эlcobbola: Thanks!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:39, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Please see Commons:Deletion requests/File:Christian Arthur Edgar "Tim" O'Brien CBE and Barbara Joy O'Brien.jpg

And the edit history of SpooksBGone which started off with them posting to editor's talk pages attacks on User:EugeneZelenko. I blocked them at en.wiki as their second edit was to create an attack page aimed at another editor. That finally led me to Commons. Doug Weller (talk) 13:30, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

The majority of PD-algorithm uploads by new users aren't AI. What should we do about it?

I've been working through the results of abuse filter 298 and the overwhelming majority of uploads are not AI art. Working through the last 500 or so (from January 12 through today), my back of the envelope estimate is:

  • 85% are non-AI images where the uploader is not the creator. These have been or will shortly be deleted as copyvios/no source/no permission.
  • 5% are non-AI images where the uploader is the creator. These often have both PD-algo and another license until either they or a patroller fix the file page.
  • 5% are non-AI images where the uploader is not the creator, but the file can be kept because of PD-textlogo, PD-old, etcetera.
  • 5% are actually AI images.

Making matters worse, a lot of the AI images that are uploaded by new users aren't within scope. There is lots of debate about AI images and scope in DRs, but there's broad agreement that files with rendering issues so bad that the files can't be used on sister projects are generally out of scope, and a lot of the uploads are things like this clock with two Xs or this illustration of Shakespeare where none of the anatomy, architecture, or text makes sense.

On the one hand, Filter 298 is working exactly as intended, as patrollers are able to use it to neutralize a large amount of copyvios. On the other hand, I suspect that most of the time, people are just clicking the checkbox in the upload wizard because it's there and lets uploaders bypass having to answer other questions about the file's authorship. It being a prominent default option may be doing more harm than good.

Should we remove the AI checkbox from the upload wizard or delay where/change how AI can be selected as an option there? The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:00, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

That's as clear-cut a case as there could possibly be. 95% incorrect, and much of that 5% useless. The AI checkbox should be removed from Upload Wizard entirely, or at least heavily restricted (30/500 would be my vote). Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:37, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
@The Squirrel Conspiracy: Did your "PD-aglo" mean "PD-algorithm" or something else? - Jmabel ! talk 00:16, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
Yes, I meant PD-algorithm. I use PD-algo as a shorthand because I can't always remember how to spell "algorithm". The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 02:49, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
even as a shorthand, "PD-algo" would have been a lot clearer. - Jmabel ! talk 19:20, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
That's what I thought I was typing. As I said, I cannot seem to spell that word correctly. Fixed! The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:28, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
@Sannita (WMF): in case you are not following this page, probably a thread you will want to follow. - Jmabel ! talk 00:16, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
@Pi.1415926535: still, if it is (as seems to be indicated above) an 85% accurate predictor of copyvios, it might be worth having. Sort of like the discovery of penicillin. - Jmabel ! talk 00:19, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
I guess it's functioning like a trap question in a survey. When we get an obviously false response to an easy question, that's a strong signal that the user may also be wrong about the other things they've said. Belbury (talk) 17:15, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
FWIW, I've noticed this as well from patrolling Special:NewFiles with no consideration of edit filters--erroneous PD-algorithm claims have become very common. In case it's related, there has also been a noticeable increase in bogus {{PD-USGov}} claims--not the typical federal v. state conflation, but use with images that have no relationship to any government entity (e.g., movie posters, random Internet images, etc.) Whatever change was made to the UploadWizard should be reconsidered. Эlcobbola talk 19:33, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
Bumping. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 07:49, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Yes, this is an issue, but more general than only miss-tagging files. How do we prevent people from uploading copyright violations and out-of-scope images? It is much better that copyvios are uploaded without any license, than with a wrong license. Yann (talk) 09:59, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
We still can't change the fact that people can't read, ignore multiple texts, and deliberately lie by checking the checkmark where they confirm they filled in the form correctly and aren't uploading copyrighted material. Previously the file would be uploaded as CC-BY-SA and would also end up in a big backlog. I think the UploadWizard is clear enough. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 13:04, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi all, just to let you know that I followed very closely the discussion. We'll investigate and see if the formulation needs improving, or if people are deliberately choosing the wrong license for reasons that are not linked to wording. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:21, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section/Feb-Mar 2024

FYI. -- CptViraj (talk) 21:08, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

MDanielsBot is inactive so COM:RFR is not being automatically archived

The task is: Commons:Bots/Requests/MDanielsBot 7. The bot hasn't edited since Jan. 16. I'm going to do some manual archiving, but I figured I'd let the rest of the team know. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:12, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Help finishing off Commons:Deletion requests/2024/01/15

Every remaining DR at Commons:Deletion requests/2024/01/15 is one I'm involved with and can't/won't close. Can someone else step in and finish off that day? The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:48, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

I closed all but two (one I'm giving the uploader a week to fix the source issue, and the other I'm too uncertain about to close). Abzeronow (talk) 22:09, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 23:36, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Artwork uploaded to Commons now used as fact

Apollo-11 stone slab

The modern artwork shown is a misinterpretation by the modern artist of an antelope as a predator. The correct images can be seen in this screendump from a recent study. The file is unfortunately used all over the place now as an example of prehistoric art, which amounts to disinformation. I have removed the link to the file from some articles, but really, this image should be removed as misleading. It may even be a subtle trolling of the wikipedia system. Ratel (talk) 02:39, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

 Not done It is up to local projects to solve factual disputes. I've changed the thumbnail description on en.wiki to "Modern artist's impression of a zoomorphic pictogram like those that would be in Apollo 11 Cave, Namibia", but the file is within COM:SCOPE so we're not going to remove it. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 05:05, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Fair enough. I am planning to visit the Museum that stores the original in April this year, and when I return I will upload my accurate photo/s of the item, and replace this fantasy item wherever I can on the various projects. Ratel (talk) 12:37, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
I've added a {{Factual accuracy}} template to the misleading modern drawing.
There's an actual photograph of the original at File:Poobah Ostrich Cave Drawing Photo.jpg but it doesn't appear to have any evidence of being freely licenced, so I've put that up for deletion. Belbury (talk) 13:57, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
You really ought to look up what the word "disinformation" actually means Trade (talk) 02:12, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Need a French speaker to assist a user

Hello! Can someone that speaks French please explain to Quentin42170 that their free license is irrevocable, and that their uploads are within scope, so we're not going to delete them five years after upload? Thanks! The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 20:56, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

The Squirrel Conspiracy: Perhaps this specific FAQ on the Creative Commons website would be appropriate. See https://creativecommons.org/faq/fr/#quadvient-il-si-lauteur-d%C3%A9cide-de-r%C3%A9voquer-la-licence-cc-qui-sapplique-sur-du-mat%C3%A9riel-que-jutilise Good luck Ww2censor (talk) 00:06, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
There seems to be a similar issue with User:KyLauren/User:Laurene264. Also a French speaker, also requesting deletions of years-old in-scope uploads. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:47, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Bonjour et merci pour votre aide précieuse.
Il est possible de retirer une photo, c'est simplement la licence CC qui n'est pas révocable.
Cf " Qu’advient-il si l’auteur décide de révoquer la licence CC qui s’applique sur du matériel que j’utilise ? Les licences CC sont irrévocables. Cela signifie qu’une fois vous recevez du matériel sous une licence CC, vous aurez toujours le droit de l’utiliser sous les conditions de la licence, même si le concédant de licence change son avis et cesse de distribuer sous les termes de la licence CC. Bien sûr, vous pouvez choisir de respecter les souhaits du concédant de licence et de cesser d’utiliser l’œuvre. "
--Traduction--
Hello and thank you for your precious help. It is possible to delete a photo, it's just CC license witch is not.
See What happens if the author decides to revoke the CC license to material I am using? The CC licenses are irrevocable. This means that once you receive material under a CC license, you will always have the right to use it under those license terms, even if the licensor changes his or her mind and stops distributing under the CC license terms. Of course, you may choose to respect the licensor’s wishes and stop using the work.
Many thanks for this website very helpfull ♥ KyLauren (talk) 15:56, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you ♥ KyLauren (talk) 16:31, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done I added a message in French on Quentin42170's talk page. Yann (talk) 16:07, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
"En tant que concédant, vous pouvez arrêter de distribuer sous la licence CC à tout moment, mais toute personne qui a accès à une copie de la matière peut continuer à le redistribuer sous les termes de la licence CC. Bien que vous ne pouviez pas révoquer la licence, les licences CC fournissent un mécanisme permettant aux concédants de demander à ce que les autres suppriment les informations d’attribution en utilisant leur matériel. "
See "As a licensor, you may stop distributing under the CC license at any time, but anyone who has access to a copy of the material may continue to redistribute it under the CC license terms. While you cannot revoke the license, CC licenses do provide a mechanism for licensors to ask that others using their material remove the attribution information." KyLauren (talk) 16:27, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Débutante

Bonjour , je débute ici. et je cherche comment télécharger quelques photos que j’ai pris ce matin de mon quartier de Montréal . je m’excuse si je ne suis pas au bon endroit pour avoir de l’aide et poser des questions . Merci beaucoup de votre travail sur Wikipédia . cordialement Petite Neige (talk) 20:08, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Bonjour, Bienvenue à Wikimedia Commons. Vous pouvez lire Commons:Premiers pas pour répondre aux questions sur le téléchargement de fichiers sur Commons. Nous pouvons également répondre à d’autres questions que vous vous posez au Commons:Help desk ou Commons:Service d'aide. Abzeronow (talk) 22:10, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Trigger of filter 290 while trying to upload new version of file

Hi, I was trying to upload a new version of File:Same-sex Adoption Map Europe.svg as Greece legalized same-sex adoption, but it gives me an error and by checking the file logs, I saw that I triggered some filter 290 and I don't know why (Special:AbuseLog/10426096). Dimsar01 (talk) 22:51, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

That abuse filter is when non-autopatrolled users try to overwrite someone else's file. I added the template that allows anyone to overwrite the file you mentioned to resolve the issue. Abzeronow (talk) 23:00, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
@Dimsar01: Also, you may request autopatroller rights at COM:RFR if you wish. Abzeronow (talk) 23:02, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! Dimsar01 (talk) 23:40, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

New autopatroller protection level displays wrong protection message.

See File:The Chessmaster 2000 floppy.jpg. It's using the "This page is currently protected, and can be edited only by administrators." message. How do we adjust this? The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 01:23, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 01:55, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! @Lucas Werkmeister, Rillke, and 1989: You're the still-active editors that have worked with that page most recently. Is this something any of you can fix? The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 04:13, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
@The Squirrel Conspiracy: That’s strange – I see “protected” on the file page itself, but “semi-protected” when I try to edit it. (According to ?uselang=qqx, MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext is used with editprotected in the view action and editautopatrolprotected in the edit action.) Turning the “semi-protected” into something else should be doable (though I’m not sure what the exact phrasing should be), but I have no idea why the view action seems to use the wrong permission… Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 12:51, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
I changed MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext and created Template:Protectedpagetext/PageAutopatrolProtected but the wrong template still shows up. GPSLeo (talk) 13:16, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Addition: At the view source there is now the correct template. GPSLeo (talk) 13:18, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Not sure why it is resulting to the default. ─ Aafī (talk) 13:51, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Please undelete

Category:Lisbon trams in 1957, because it’s no longer empty. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 01:26, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:30, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Benutzerverifizierung

Hello everyone, if a user account is verified in the DE-WP and should also be verified here in the Commons - does the person in question turn to this page with the request or somewhere else? Greetings & thanks for your answer! Grizma (talk) 20:06, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

You'll want to go to Commons:Requests for rights. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 20:10, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
The question was on account verification presumable for copyright verification not for the confirmed user right. GPSLeo (talk) 20:14, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
Da gibt es keinen richtigen Vorgang für. Die Person muss sich wieder ans Supportteam wenden, dieses mal aber an die permissions-commons@wikimedia.org Adresse. GPSLeo (talk) 20:12, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
Danke, GPSLeo! Grizma (talk) 19:45, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Flickr Review bot is stuck

Hello, the bot seems to be stuck and is not reviewing files. Special:Contributions/FlickreviewR_2 shows last review was "09:09, February 14, 2024" for File:Semana da Música Dois dias depois de ontem 20.11 (2) (52514143306).jpg // sikander { talk } 🦖 16:27, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Zhuyifei1999, the operator, has been inactive since March 2023. If this was caused by the recent infrastructure changes to Toolforge, we might need a new bot. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:31, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
Y que se debe hacer o que se necesita ya que el bot esta atascado desde la fecha mencionada Rodolfo Matias (talk) 02:28, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
Got a developer to reboot it via IRC but not sure what the issue was, its has already been transferred to the new toolserver a year ago.. Stemoc 15:48, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
@Stemoc: That's great to hear! Thank you. cc: Ooligan. // sikander { talk } 🦖 16:30, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. // sikander { talk } 🦖 16:23, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

merge and rename

File:OBR Hannvoer 2024e.webm needs to be merged into File:OBR Hannvoer 2024.webm. And File:OBR Hannvoer 2024.webm needs to be renamed to File:OBR Hannover 2024.webm. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 12:16, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@C.Suthorn: The proper venue for such a request is COM:HMS.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:31, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done Yann (talk) 14:55, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Deletion

Please delete all files in Category:Flickr review needed (need license history check) per Commons:Deletion requests/File:6 Days Bremen 2014-1.jpg. Also please delete in Category:1989 in Andalusia files from "Andalusia 1989 1" to "Andalusia 1989 9" (34 files). By the time of upload was no line that the template can't be used after 1 March 2012. All uploads mine, so don't notice me. After deletion I will post file links to undeletion categories. Thank Юрий Д.К 13:30, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Yann (talk) 14:43, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Юрий Д.К 15:54, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Authorization

Hi, I am a photographer of opera, demonstrations, monuments and Stolpersteine. Hereby I declare that User:Jabberwockyunmastered is entitled to upload pictures of mine. He will be helping me in the Stolpersteine project. I would like to know if this statement is sufficient or if I have to send a letter or an eMail to someone. Thanks for Your help. Christian Michelides (talk) 15:24, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

@Christian Michelides: "Pictures of mine" - does it refer to the images that you have captured? If there are considerable images, I suggest sending an email to COM:VRT, in which you release those files under a CC-BY-SA or any such license, and also seek creation of a template that the mentioned user can use on the files. However, if the files are very few, I feel going through such a procedure is unwarranted, and a statement anywhere on Commons should be sufficient. Even this one, but a mention of the license is necessary. How many files do you have and is this is a one-time process or something that will remain "ongoing"? Best regards, ─ Aafī (talk) 16:34, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
@Jabberwockyunmastered: do you mind if we add a permalink to this discussion on your user page to clarify that Christian Michelides has given you this permission? (Though VRT would probably still be worth doing.) - Jmabel ! talk 19:20, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
@TheAafi: Thanks a lot for Your fast reply. "Pictures of mine" = my photographs. Sorry, I am still in a leading function at Lighthouse Vienna and I am working as a psychotherapist in private practice in the afternoon. Therefore my resources are very limited and I am grateful to Donna Gedenk that she is uploading most of my pics. She will still be in charge of Eastern Europe, Southern Europe and Western Europe while Jabberwockyunmastered shall take over Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. This will be an ongoing procedure for at least five years, with Jabberwockyunmastered uploading 100 to 200 pics a month. I will send an eMail to the address you mentioned .... Thanks. Be aware that there are already more then 100.000 Stolpersteine all over Europe, with both the Netherlands (Donna Gedenk) and Baden-Württemberg (Jabberwockyunmastered) with more then 10.000 Stolpersteine!!!! --Christian Michelides (talk) 20:55, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
I have sent an email to VRT. Best wishes--Christian Michelides (talk) 14:59, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
@Christian Michelides: Thank you. I have left a link to this thread in the ticket. ─ Aafī (talk) 15:03, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

False description

Hi

Should file be deleted + user blocked ? --Panam2014 (talk) 13:41, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Panam2014: The DR should be allowed to run its own course. If the user is causing disruptions, they should be warned, and then reported at an appropriate noticeboard. Block requests should be made at COM:AN/B, and if there is apparent vandalism, COM:AN/V. There is some discussion at User talk:Littlexiaogui and I believe the user should be warmly taught basics of the copyright. Best regards, ─ Aafī (talk) 16:41, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done. The file in question is speedily deleted and DR is closed. Taivo (talk) 09:06, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Hoax collaboration including cross-project activity

Images from the above three editors, using 3 different cameras but all taken mid-February 2024, are being used to promote on en-wiki, fr-wiki, wq, wikidata, and here a Wordpress website called AlHakawi News, its owner/publisher, and an Egyptian business Al-Agha Group he also heads. This man whose name is variously given as Abdel Nasser, Abdel Naser, "Abdel Nasser Abdel Fattah Mohamed" (at AlHakawi webpage), and "Mohamed AlAgha" is claimed to have won "the Academy Award" in 2023. Accordingly, photos of this man have been added to many Academy Award categories, including (my favorite) Category:Academy Awards after parties, where 3 of the 6 photos included are now this man.

Interestingly, MA claims to be "Lead Partnerships Manager, South Asia, Wikimedia Foundation" but this is probably because her very first edit on January 11, 2024 was creating her Wikimedia page as a copy of User:PDas_WMF except for using her own gmail address. HouseOfChange (talk) 18:38, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

कटासमुला is indeffed. I CSDed MA's meta-page for spam. ─ Aafī (talk) 18:55, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
I zapped all of the uploads of कटासमुला. Blatant advertisements. There was a DR and I have speedily closed it. ─ Aafī (talk) 19:19, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
I nuked other hoax uploads by these users. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:39, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

File:Oriental Plane imported from iNaturalist photo 578170 on 28 February 2024.jpg

Hello, I am unable to upload the original version of the file for the INaturalistReviewBot to review. The error message states: "Upload error. Could not acquire lock. Somebody else is doing something to this file." Thank you for your consideration. C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 02:45, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

The original doesn't appear to be larger that this one, i.e. [2] and [3]. Yann (talk) 08:58, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

rename

compare Anna (mother) and Katarzyna (wife) with File:Anna z Jabłonowskich Leszczyńska.jpg

Please, rename File:Anna z Jabłonowskich Leszczyńska.jpg to File:Katarzyna z Opalińskich Leszczyńska.jpg; there is a request from 14:32 26 February.

Note. File:Anna Jabłonowska.jpg were immediately renamed to File:Katarzyna Leszczyńska z Opalińskich.jpg (see history, request at 15:20 26 February; renamed at 16:27 26 February)

Now there is an obvious contradiction with

Compare Category:Anna Leszczyńska (1660–1727) and Category:Catherine Opalińska.

— Yuri V (t•c), 13:34, 13:49, 28 February 2024 (UTC).

✓ Done by Mateus2019 —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - contributions} 18:27, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

False own work?

Hi

Did you know if this file is a copied and pasted with a horizontal rotation from left to right and some minor adjusts ? Because, quality seems bad with contrast, we can't see the interior of the museum as claimed. There are no EXIF. It looks like a file from Pinterest. Panam2014 (talk) 20:59, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

✓ Deleted by Bedivere The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 08:49, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Request for semi-protection of File:Wiki-dstyle.png

Vandalism Trade (talk) 14:26, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done semi-protected indefinitely. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - contributions} 16:51, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Request for Assistance with Image Upload Issues

Hi dears, I am currently experiencing difficulties with uploading images, as a majority of my pictures have been deleted. I have thoroughly reviewed the rules and guidelines and do not believe I have violated any of them. I need support in resolving this issue. I understand that I may have made mistakes and would appreciate assistance in ensuring that these mistakes do not lead to any future blocks. Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter. Patriot Kor (talk) 16:29, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Patriot Kor: Please review COM:EVID and COM:DW.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 19:02, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploads from Papa2004 accounts

Hi. I have a list of cross-wiki spammer Papa2004 accounts who downloaded files for they spam pages. I made a template {No permission since} for each file. But look like it's a copyvio from somewhere. It's possible for delete this files fast? Thanks you.

List of problem accounts:

Кронас (talk) 22:28, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

2603:8000::/32

Hi, I unblocked Special:Contributions/2603:8000::/32 because of collateral damage, and reblock Special:Contributions/2600:6C50:17F:ABB9:0:0:0:0/64 for one month. Yann (talk) 10:12, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Yann: The smaller range has been vandalizing since 14:32, 14 October 2023 (UTC).   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:05, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Finals123

Finals123 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

User created some bogus deletion requests, such as Commons:Deletion requests/File:I-35.svg. They've been blocked for that before. LilianaUwU (talk / contribs) 06:02, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

And Commons:Deletion_requests/User:Yann, trying to delete an admin's userpage with the explicit reason of admin having been the one who blocked them. I'm indef'ing. DMacks (talk) 20:11, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Main space categories on user pages?

It's probably a minor issue, but I couldn't find guidelines on that question, so I'm asking here whether it's ok for user pages to have main space categories, e.g. User:Prakash2621 has several. I tried to remove the categories, but got the warning to not edit other people's user page and ask here instead. Nakonana (talk) 23:12, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done I've deleted the page as obviously inappropriate usage. --A.Savin 23:25, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

About a deletion request

Hi. A few days ago I applied for speedy deletion of an image that I had uploaded years ago and as I noticed recently, possible copyright violation. It was deemed not to meet the criteria for speedy deletion and sent for deletion request process. After seven days I asked to close the discussion to proceed with the deletion. The admin said that since the image is being used externally, this is a problem and did not delete it. I read the policy and process (Deletion policy, Deletion requests) and did not find such a problem mentioned in cases of deletion requests. What is going on and what can I do from now on? IM-yb (talk) 16:53, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

I can see you haven't answered what @Abzeronow asked over there, "Can you find details about the 1987 renovation? The photograph would have to show a significant portion of the 1987 renovation to be deleted. Also this was originally built in 1836, and de:Wilhelm von Weiler died in 1878"? This is a legitimate question and per se not a "denial" and you have not attempted to clarify it. ─ Aafī (talk) 17:26, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
IM-yb is talking about a discussion he's had with Turelio on their talk page. I just put in that comment since I am trying to help determine what the actual copyright status is of the building shown in the photograph. Abzeronow (talk) 17:32, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
@Aafī the question was asked after I first created the discussion here. Thanks anyway. IM-yb (talk) 17:44, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
@IM-yb: The answer would still be relevant.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 18:59, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
So far, we have found evidence that suggests the 1987 renovation removed a staircase to a side door (and the side door may have been removed). The main entrance and ramp appear to be similar to as they were before 1987 as shown by 1940s photographs, the 1899 renovation appears to have been more significent as far as the exterior, but that might be covered by PD-old-assumed since there doesn't appear to be any information on who did the 1899 renovation. So it looks like it will come down to whether the changes from 1987 are de minimis or not. Abzeronow (talk) 19:08, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
In addition to the above, additional changes have been identified on the facade of the building, specifically in the center (covering of an inscription with elements of purple color, shutters removal, replacement of wall with railings and conversion of a mullioned window into a vaulted one). Overall so far, architectural interventions have been identified on the facade of the building on all three floors, which have obviously changed the image of the building compared to the past. Especially the vaulted window in the center reflects the intellectual work of the creator of the 1987 renovation. In any case, since I am now the only participant in the deletion request discussion, how many months can a deletion request discussion be kept open? Can it last for years? IM-yb (talk) 13:56, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Deletion requests can last any time from seven days (usually the simple ones are resolved quickly) to months. I imagine that given the progress in how the backlog has been reduced to just December and January, it's possible the DR will be closed within this month. I am still a participant in the DR (I forgot to comment on it yesterday, I'll do so later if I have time.) Abzeronow (talk) 17:33, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

I have provided new evidence and sources, which I think leave no doubt about the outcome of the deletion request. Please take into account and when possible proceed with the procedures. IM-yb (talk) 16:43, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Nevaunderestimate

Could someone take a look and take action as appropriate? I created a deletion request instead of tagging as copyvios as I haven't found the source for many of the images. It seems that the uploader thinks that any image that is "publicly available on the internet" is "Public Domain" and has uploaded them here as PD-US. Since most of these are outright copyvios, could an admin take a look? Thanks —SpacemanSpiff 12:10, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Closed. Yann (talk) 12:29, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Daphme Lantier still blocking people?

I opened list of blocked users https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BlockList and found: "05:32, 11 March 2024. Autoblock #475841. Daphne Lantier. Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Amitie 10g"..." How is it possible? Taivo (talk) 18:42, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

ahh INC has now become one with the wiki ...lol..sorry..i assume he created an autoblock setting in 2017 which is still being enforced on a block he added for Amitie then, pretty cool though but a bug report should be filed for this.. Stemoc 18:54, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
I saw that too. By the way, why has Amitie been blocked for so long? I could not understand why by reading their talk page Bedivere (talk) 20:05, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Flickr Review Bot has broken down

Dear Admins, The Flickr review bot has broken down since early March 9, 2024 and the Flickr review Backlog is more than 8000+ images now.

User Zhuyifei1999 who used the run the flickr bot left WikiCommons in March 2023. Perhaps, someone else can fix the bot? Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 21:09, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

  • I hope so. Because an Admin like Turelio or Taivo cannot review 8,000 images. Only a bot can. --Leoboudv (talk) 01:26, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
    did get another developer to get it to run but yeah, same issue, it needs new maintainers who understand how the bot works...seeing that its the same bug as last time, I have to assume it has something to do with a recent flickr api issue which also affected UploadWizard/Flickr last month. Unless its fixed, it might keep stopping a lot more now. Personally i think a long term solution would be to limit "mass uploads" from flickr (single uploads is fine) by users with minimal access which includes "auto confirmed"....as i have said many times, 90% of images added from flickr are not needed here..some users just mass upload to increase edit counts and nothing more as majority of those images will never ever be used by anyone and a lot more fails inclusion criteria and might even fail local FoP too as well as personality rights....Hopefully this can be discussed one day and a solution found... Stemoc 16:05, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
    I don't think Flickr images do any harm here except in the cases you mention, those that fail local FOP. Bedivere (talk) 17:38, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
    yeah but commons is not a repository, i was looking at the over 9000 (sorry) images that were not reviewed when the bot was down and nearly all of them were unnecessary, if we can put a strong policy on this, next time the bot goes down, 10 licence reviewers will be easily able to review the images because we won't have that many images to review....If we can limit who mass uploads, we can control which types of images are added on the project as well, this ensures we don't have to report/remove images added from flickr which qualifies under the licences but not under certain copyrights including FoP etc.. Stemoc 17:55, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
    Or you know. You could just kindly ask said users to refrain from Flickr uploads for the time being Trade (talk) 23:51, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
    I tend to agree with Stemoc here. We don't want a bunch of noneducational vacation photos or more duplicates of photos that we already have. Abzeronow (talk) 17:57, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
    Certainly. Maybe we could restrict the importing of photos by individuals and continue to allow bulk uploads from non-profits, organisations and government accounts on Flickr. Bedivere (talk) 18:00, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
    I've never understood why we (Commons) hasn't restricted bulk Flickr uploads. I would support any proposal to do so. Bidgee (talk) 00:48, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
    Thank you, Stemoc! Is there any documentation or a link to a page that explains what bug is affecting the bot? // sikander { talk } 🦖 18:06, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
    since Flickreviewr is basically a bot running on a python script, there might be an issue with the script itself, might need an update due to recent changes in the flickr api..again i'm not sure if a recent change in the Flickr api caused this but when it went down last time, the last few images it passed were marked "public domain" and again when it went down a few days ago, it as reviewing images marked public domain too, maybe its hitting some bug related to that and then coming to a full stop, not sure..I'm more of a "script kiddie" so don't understand much python but this is the wikitech:Nova_Resource:Tools.yifeibot/SAL log generated by wikitech for Flickreviewr Bot.. Stemoc 18:47, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
    @Stemoc: Unfortunately it looks like the bot is stuck again. I know Python and can help figure out bugs, but is this bot open source? Tried to look for code repo but can't find any info about it. // sikander { talk } 🦖 23:07, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
    @Sikander: User:FlickreviewR 2/flickreviewr.py might help. ─ Aafī (talk) 01:43, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
    you can downlaod the latest version of the script from toolforge , a dev is looking into this but again this is a commons problem possibly and maybe someone well versed in python as well as templates used here and flickr api can figure out the issue.. Stemoc 02:57, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Request for protection of File:Grand Theft Auto Online Logo.svg

Vandalism --Trade (talk) 20:19, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@Trade ✓ Done Semi-protected for six-months. ─ Aafī (talk) 20:29, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

FlickypediaBackfillrBot

Could someone help with the bot? One of the properties it inserts is used the wrong way Trade (talk) 15:58, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Tagging Alexwlchan as they run the bot. // sikander { talk } 🦖 16:36, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Sure, I've paused the bot – what’s up? Alexwlchan (talk) 21:05, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Merge needed

Can somebody merge File:Fatimid court scene (alledged).jpg into File:Fatimid Ms court scene-large.jpg as a better version? Both the photos are of the same manuscript and have been sourced - directly and indirectly - from the Werner Forman Archives. Thanks, TrangaBellam (talk) 13:34, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

@TrangaBellam: ✓ Done Is there a better name for the file though? ─ Aafī (talk) 14:20, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2024 in Ukraine: MassMessage request

Hello! I have a quick request from the organizers of Wiki Loves Folklore 2024 in Ukraine - we would like to invite people who have participated in this context in the past to join this year's edition.

List of receivers

Text of the message (first line is the subject, everything else is the body of the message; I've already accounted for having a correct signature & timestamp) OlenaVinsent (WMUA) (talk) 21:42, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

@OlenaVinsent (WMUA): The Etherpad link doesn't come up with any substantial information? I can only see default text there. The list of receivers link appears broken. Could you please take a look again? ─ Aafī (talk) 20:25, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
@Aafi it was my mistake, I fixed it, now everything works OlenaVinsent (WMUA) (talk) 16:14, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi @OlenaVinsent (WMUA): The Etherpad link is still not up-dated, and it reflects the default text only. Could you just paste the text of the message on a sub-page of your userpage. It'd better and easier. ─ Aafī (talk) 17:01, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
@OlenaVinsent (WMUA) and Aafi I fixed the second link for you by removing the extraneous vertical bar.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 22:29, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks @Jeff G.. This is ✓ Done: @OlenaVinsent (WMUA). Best regards, ─ Aafī (talk) 22:47, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
@Aafi and @OlenaVinsent (WMUA): Thanks!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:01, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry

Iamjosemon (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

The near-identical username and identical editing pattern indicate that this user is a sockpuppet of Iamjosemom (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log), which was previously blocked as a sockpuppet on enwiki. See en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TronFactor which also indicates that there may be cross-wiki abuse. --Sable232 (talk) 21:46, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked. Yann (talk) 21:58, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you. Is it usual practice to delete the uploads of sockpuppets, or not? --Sable232 (talk) 23:09, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
It is not automatic. It depends on the socks' behavior and how these files fit within COM:SCOPE. Yann (talk) 08:25, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Remove protection

Hi! Could someone please change the protection settings for my user page from sysop only to autoconfirmed only? Thanks! Trijnsteltalk 16:22, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

@Trijnstel: ✓ Done per request. Abzeronow (talk) 16:29, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Category:Nesrine Slaoui

Hi

Nesrine Slaoui asks for the deletion of files uploaded in Commons in 02/2024. Panam2014 (talk) 12:10, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Honestly these 2 pictures are OK. I won't support public personalities who do not assume their performances, and the pictures taken during them. Yann (talk) 14:04, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
 Not done. No valid reason for deletion. Taivo (talk) 08:12, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Request to roll back a reviewed template

Can somebody with review privileges please roll back the file page content on File:Sonarika Bhadoria.jpg to this December 2023 version? A user vandalised a reviewed Bollywood Hungama licence, and the Commons interface is preventing me from restoring the original (and the source URL is dead now, so restoring it as needing a fresh review would risk it being rejected). Belbury (talk) 12:05, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@Belbury: ✓ Done thanks to 0x0a.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:21, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

File moves by User:CAPTAIN RAJU

In which sense is the move from File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-27237-0001, Reinhard Gehlen.jpg to File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-27237-0001, war.jpg an improvement? People who do not know what they are doing should not be able to move files. --Prüm (talk) 05:07, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

It surprises me they have been a file mover for so long yet have made some very confusing mistakes. Can you elaborate why did you perform that move @CAPTAIN RAJU? Bedivere (talk) 05:17, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
One strange thing I found is that CAPTAIN RAJU got their File move rights from the banned User:Daphne Lantier, according to logs. --Prüm (talk) 05:34, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, they should have definitely applied if they didn't (it doesn't seem like it) Bedivere (talk) 12:26, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
not first time. check User talk:CAPTAIN RAJU User talk:CAPTAIN RAJU/Archive 6... serious mistakes and quite often.
 Support removal as filemover. RZuo (talk) 13:42, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done Removed. They should reapply for the right. Bedivere (talk) 15:17, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Additionally, the contributions of User:Comentarist (especially their uploads) should be checked. --Prüm (talk) 05:12, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

All files deleted. Sources are unclear Bedivere (talk) 05:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

This DR & This DR

Dear Admins,

Can someone please place this flickrwashing account on a blacklist since a stolen image placed on this account apparently passed flickrreview on March 4, 2023....ASAP. The stolen image is used in 2 wikipedia pages. Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 10:18, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done @Leoboudv. I can see clear flickrwashing and have thus blacklisted the account. ─ Aafī (talk) 10:42, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
  •  Comment: I am going to bed now and would like to thank you for your help Aafi. Its miraculous that the real copyright owner has not detected the violation of his images to Commons for so long. Best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 11:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

User:Alex Neman

This user frequently uploads photos of the back of head, and there are so many of them that I can't possibly list them all in the Deletion requests. Please intervene in this user's behavior.

In addition, these photos are all COM:OOS, and only a few of them are educational. Thyj (talk) 13:33, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Recreation of previously deleted files

MultiJames 1995 (talk · contribs) seems to have re-uploaded mutiple files that previously deleted per COM:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by JCGDIMAIWAT. I have tagged some. Please check the rest. 0x0a (talk) 13:55, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Thanks to Bedivere. 0x0a (talk) 16:53, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

File:The Sounds of Earth Record Cover - GPN-2000-001978.jpg

Dear admins, File:The Sounds of Earth Record Cover - GPN-2000-001978.jpg seems to attract destructive edits by IPs (anonymous users); cf. the history of the page. Please consider to protect the file so that only logged in users can edit it. Thank you very much! – Aristeas (talk) 19:51, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 20:06, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you very much, Mdaniels5757! – Aristeas (talk) 13:13, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

User:Hölderlin2019 and Copyvio

I am sure that none of the uploads by User:Hölderlin2019 are their own work. I tagged one and it was deleted earlier. Their talk page shows a history of uploading files with copyright issues. Should I appropriately tag all their entries or is there policy which can roll back their uploads? Note: Active ANI report on enwiki. Jeraxmoira (talk) 08:59, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Final warning and Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Hölderlin2019‎. Yann (talk) 13:13, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Problematic additions of checksums by IP 38.42.62.122

Dear admins, please take a look at the contributions of IP 38.42.62.122. Between October and December 2023, this IP has added structured data “Checksum” entries to misc. images. But often these checksums conflict with already present reliable checksums; sometimes the IP has added 5 or so different checksums to the same image (which is absurd – when using the same determination method, an image should always have a single checksum), and the IP has never added the important “determination method” qualifier. Some other edits are obvious nonsense – the IP has set the structured data “depicts” (P180) value of this photo six times to “checksum“ (Q218341). Therefore I get the impression that most or all of these “Checksum” entries are just nonsense. Please check this. If you get the same impression, please consider to revert all not yet reverted changes made by that IP in that timeframe. Thank you very much! – Aristeas (talk) 13:11, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm going to proceed with reverting these changes. In addition to the issues you've already pointed out, in at least one instance the IP added the exact same checksum to two different files: Special:Diff/816711640, Special:Diff/816760347.
The checksum (P4092) property should not generally be used on Commons images. There's no mechanism for keeping it in sync with modifications to images, nor does it fulfill any technical needs on the site. Omphalographer (talk) 01:57, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you very much, Omphalographer! – Aristeas (talk) 09:09, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Category renaming

Please rename the category to match the related article in the English Wikipedia.

0x0a (talk) 09:22, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Request

I accidentally edited File:Nehru Guest House, Jamia Millia Islamia 3.jpg while logged out and would like to have my IP address hidden. Please hide it. Bintladen (talk) 20:02, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done ─ Aafī (talk) 20:04, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Revdel

Please revdel this change from a globally locked LTA Special:Contributions/JesseMilz. Thanks! Da LambTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 00:46, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done. ─ Aafī (talk) 04:21, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you @Aafi. Da LambTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 04:33, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

"Cleanup" on speedy deletion requests

Do administrators appreciate this type of cleanup: [4] [5]? Personally, I think it deletes the detailed explanation I gave for the edit and I asked @Johnj1995: to stop doing it, but I vaguely recall he already ignored my request in the past. Enhancing999 (talk) 23:35, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

It is very unhelpful for such edits, both unnecessary and interfering; almost akin to edit warring if there is no conversation about why they are making those changes. Admins can work out what to do, and the explanation is always helpful to assist in that process. We do wish to continue to have category redirects where helpful, so the history is much better. Johnj1995 please stop that practice, better to converse with the editor than just apply your PoV; if in disagreement, then append your {{Bad name}} rather than overwrite. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:36, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Close withdrawn deletion request

Hello, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Faenza - Museo della - Ceramica - Denkm. General Pasi 064.01.jpg could be closed after I’ve withdrawn my nomination. — Speravir – 20:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 10:00, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Removing photos

Hello!

I have asked to remove 3 photos of me but there is no answer so far: Here 1 Here 2 Here 3

I'd really appreciate if you speed up the process. Thank you! Best, -TonJ (talk) 09:57, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

 Not done. The photos have been for years in Commons and one week more or less does not mean anything. One week is needed to determine corresponding or non-corresponding to project scope requirements. Taivo (talk) 10:07, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Where are we with the scope of computer algorithm or artificial intelligence generated works?

I will admit to not having paid much attention to computer algorithm or artificial intelligence generated works. Now I am starting to see them uploaded by those who are not contributors (and some as CoI and as spam), and some using them for articles. Have we had a discussion about how these fit within scope. I can understand if they are straight to the topic, however, in the cases I am seeing they are generated solely to colour an article so are more like personal artworks that people have created than what I consider truly educational. => Commons:Project scope

If we have discussed, can someone please point me to our consensus, or some good discussions that we have had to help managed deletion discussions. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 07:34, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I will note that my nomination at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Meiteilon Ima — Divine Motherly Personification of Classical Meitei Language — AKA Maheigi Lairembi (Goddess of books, education, enlightenment, knowledge, learning, letters, mastery, philosophy, scholarship, science, skill, wi will require interpretation of scope, OR it may well require to purposefully narrow or expand our scope following the discussion.  — billinghurst sDrewth 07:52, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Noting the essay Com:AI-generated media.  — billinghurst sDrewth 08:06, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
If a file is in use, then it is in scope. But I would strongly advise other projects against using AI-generated images, except in a few cases. Yann (talk) 08:40, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
@Yann: AI-generated has come well after Commons inclusion policy and did not account for it, and we need to have our eyes wide open when we make that assessment and that determination. When does it become real vs fanasty about what is included? If the community thinks that it is that binary, then so be it.  — billinghurst sDrewth 02:57, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry that I was warned to block again due to copyright issues. Could you please let me know which file I uploaded had copyright issues? -- Sangjinhwa (talk) 14:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@Sangjinhwa: File:Eurovision Song Contest heart East Germany white.svg, for one.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:59, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
The file was deleted regardless of the copyright issues. Please understand this. -- Sangjinhwa (talk) 14:58, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

IPBE request for bot account

DaxBot (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Hi. I've IPBE on my account. Could it be attached to the bot account as well. I expect to operate the bot, in a couple of days, while I'm using the VPN. Thanks! -- DaxServer (talk) 16:49, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@DaxServer: How long would you be on VPN? ─ Aafī (talk) 20:38, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
@Aafi During April, I don't expect to continue after that -- DaxServer (talk) 06:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done Granted for one month. Bedivere (talk) 07:00, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

User:Santosh Kumar Singh (Bihar)

Santosh Kumar Singh (Bihar) - appears to be a sock of globally blocked user Suyash Kumar Singh, or at least closely related. Only edits are self-advertising on user page. Voice of Clam 21:59, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Indeffed. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:05, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Flickr Review bot

The Flickr review bot stopped working at 9:05 Am on April 4 today. This is to let other Admins know as there are currently 100 images waiting for review. Best, --Leoboudv (talk) 10:39, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

@Leoboudv: I am pinging Zhuyifei1999 in the vain hope that they might be able to help.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:46, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
@Leoboudv: User Stemoc has kindly helped twice recently by getting a developer on IRC to reboot the bot. Hello again, Stemoc. :) // sikander { talk } 🦖 14:41, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
yeah got him to reboot it again, hopefully we find a better solution like admins here having the access to delete its last action and reboot the bot in the future.... Stemoc 22:27, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
let me ping all the active maintainers of the bot for a long term solution, i won't be around anymore in a few months time @Zhuyifei1999, @Multichill, @Stang, @Steinsplitter and @WhitePhosphorus ....hopefully its fixed once and for all.... Stemoc 23:20, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
@Leoboudv: Flickr Review Bot appears to be working again now. Abzeronow (talk) 22:06, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

File:Flag of Ākāśagarbha.svg

The original file name is Flag of Ratnasambhava.svg. This file is part of a series, the file name has been changed without the author's permission. Please change the file name back. Thyj (talk) 13:36, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I have reverted the move. However, you can request it in the page itself. Pinging @Mateus2019 to give an explanation for this move. Bedivere (talk) 15:52, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
I did it because of the category (have thought the category was correct). The proposal was done by Djampa ("It has been suggested by Djampa ... that this media object be renamed to “File:Flag of Ākāśagarbha.svg” or another more suitable name". [6] I know him since 2008 for c. 154,979 good edits. The proposal also matched with the category "Ākāśagarbha". I go through the file history before moving, if facts are doubious (red user name, strange name proposal). BTW: The uploader (not Thyj) is inactive sine 2009 (so "changed without the author's permission" is not really true. A person cannot give a permission when he terminated his activity years earlier). --Mateus2019 (talk) 17:19, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
The uploader is actually alternate account of me, but it is no longer in use. Thyj (talk) 02:06, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Images of images which are not under a free license

There is a deletion request with the potential for escalation; maybe someone of the admins can check it up. Thanks--Alexander-93 (talk) 08:45, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Let’s let it play out. I see nothing that needs the attention of an admin as of yet. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 08:53, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Alachuckthebuck

Alachuckthebuck (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) User Alachuckthebuck locked in Enwiki indefinitly as sock: Special:CentralAuth/Alachuckthebuck. On Commons user Alachuckthebuck deals exclusively with copyright trolling, no own uploads Special:ListFiles/Alachuckthebuck. For example, he demands VRT-confirmations from user VladimirPF (I know VladimirPF IRL, he is real man with photocamera) on photos, which made by VladimirPF with their own camera and uploaded in full resolution with a saved EXIF: User_talk:VladimirPF#Статус_изображения_File:Soap_dish_of_Novogrudok_Metal_Products_Plant_(6)_03.jpg. + trolling after explanations.

Участник Alachuckthebuck бессрочно заблокирован в enwiki как кукла Special:CentralAuth/Alachuckthebuck. На Викискладе он занимается исключительно копирайт-троллингом, собственных загрузок 0: Special:ListFiles/Alachuckthebuck. Например, требует VRT-подтверждение, сделанных известным реальным участником Викисклада на свой собственный фотоаппарат, загруженных в полном разрешении с сохранённым EXIF: User_talk:VladimirPF#Статус_изображения_File:Soap_dish_of_Novogrudok_Metal_Products_Plant_(6)_03.jpg + троллинг в ответ на объяснения. Lesless (talk) 05:36, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

@Lesless: Hi,
We don't block accounts on Commons solely because they were blocked on another project. As long as Alachuckthebuck uses only one account on Commons, and does that following Commons policies, we are fine. I don't see the name of another account of which Alachuckthebuck would be a sockpuppet. If there is any evidence, we can run a request for check user. Any idea? Yann (talk) 09:21, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
I can tell you right now, I have never made any edit to commons that wasn't on this account. This user removed the VRT tags from images I had tagged as no permission, so asked for the uploader to send an email to vrt verifying they were his. the rest of the story is on Vladimir's talk page.
All the best - Chuck Talk 15:43, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
For what. Lesless (talk) 17:00, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 No action needed unless evidence that Alachuckthebuck has been socking here arises or is presented, which to date hasn't. Bedivere (talk) 17:01, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Is illegal VRT demands not enough? Lesless (talk) 17:06, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Of course @Alachuckthebuck should be more careful when tagging files with permission needed. These are obviously files by Vladimir. EXIF shared with previous photos. Bedivere (talk) 17:16, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Thx, and this was obvious from the very beginning. Nevertheless, Alachuckthebuck insisted (and now continues to insist) and has already reached the point of trolling. Lesless (talk) 17:25, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Lesless, I don't see you bringing up this issue with them on their talk page. From my interactions with Alachuckthebuck, they seem to be acting in good faith, although some of their actions are clumsy. You should remember Hanlon's Razor (and COM:AGF). Abzeronow (talk) 17:53, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Everything would have been so if he had not continued to insist on illegal actions after all the explanations. Lesless (talk) 19:21, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
@Lesless: you have now at least twice accused Alachuckthebuck of "illegal" action. Please either make a clear accusation of what law of what country has been broken, or withdraw that accusation. - Jmabel ! talk 16:56, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
Seeking VRT permissions where one has a doubt that an image has in it some "non-own-work elements", is not illegal. I don't see you trying to resolve this dispute on @Alachuckthebuck's talk-page and have directly raised an AN thread. I'd see this as a meritless request. ─ Aafī (talk) 17:13, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
This had been discussed on VladimirPF's talk page in this thread.
All the best - Chuck Talk 18:20, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
Jmabel, since I already made a point about AGF above, it's possible Lesless miscommunicated that they believe Alachuckthebuck to be breaking site rules rather than stating a belief that the user is breaking laws. I do agree they should retract the statement if it was a miscommunication though.Abzeronow (talk) 17:34, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
Jmabel, I don't know the exact equivalent in English. In Russian these are неправомерные требования (что Гугл переводит как “illegal demands”), well, something like “demands that do not comply with the rules”. Lesless (talk) 18:47, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
i think from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:VladimirPF&oldid=865755982#File_tagging_File:Soap_dish_of_Novogrudok_Metal_Products_Plant_(6)_03.jpg it's very clear that the reported user's action is problematic.
i dont understand why some users are nitpicking non-native english speakers' choice of words rather than the reported user, either. RZuo (talk) 18:09, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
Yes, Alachuckthebuck should be more judicious in using "no permission" since VladmirPF appears to me to be the photographer and sole copyright holder. The images have EXIF, there is no evidence of copyright violation as far as the photograph itself, and the brand logo looks too simple to me for copyright. The soap dishes are a little more questionable as the pattern may be complex enough to have a copyright of their own but a "no permission" tag was still not appropriate. Abzeronow (talk) 19:01, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
@RZuo: I don't think I was nitpicking, though I certainly accept the clarification from the person who said it. There is a big line crossed when you use words that accuse someone of criminality, even if you do so through lack of fluency in the language you are using. - Jmabel ! talk 14:49, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
wikt:illegal#Adjective. RZuo (talk) 14:59, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Fourth acception applies in this case. When I first read Lesless' use of the illegal word, I immediately thought of that. Bedivere (talk) 17:41, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
It’s a reasonable concern, but I do think we are looking at a communication misunderstanding in this case. I say this as a person who can only speak English - it’s admirable that Lesless can provide us with a translation in the first place! :-) - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 17:07, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

File:Tasvirezendegi.ir1951 (1).jpg This file was taken from a site (the name of the image is the site address) without respecting the copyright. delete it if possible Pereoptic (talk) 10:02, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

This is the third time this has been uploaded, please speedy delete (I’ve requested deletion). User Ayin.fa needs to be blocked. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 10:20, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done I deleted the file and have sent the user a final warning. If they continue, a block is due. ─ Aafī (talk) 12:43, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. I translated their message to the first warning and it seemed… defiant. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 13:05, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
They uploaded another copyvio 15 minutes after the final warning. Blocked 1wk for now. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 15:52, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. I appreciate yours and Aafi’s reasonable and proportionate admin actions. Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 16:58, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

File:Book_sans_information.svg needs to be included in kowiki protection list

Hello, as File:Book_sans_information.svg is now part of Korean Wikipedia's main page. This file needs to be protected and added into this list: Commons:Auto-protected files/wikipedia/ko. Thank you! --*Youngjin (talk) 06:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be done by the KrinkleBot? ─ Aafī (talk) 10:56, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Nonetheless, ✓ Done ─ Aafī (talk) 10:57, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Discussion about new tool for detecting logos

Hi all! I just wanted to notify you of a discussion at the Technical Village Pump about a new tool for detecting logos. Since they are the second reason for media deletion, I thought admins might be interested in chiming in. Thanks in advance! Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:19, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

"Selfies of African freelancers"

Can we just get a filter already? It's ridiculous i have to nominate this guys images for SD every single day. --Trade (talk) 22:32, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

@Trade: What "African freelancers"? What "guy"?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:53, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
This guy@Jeff G.: --Trade (talk) 09:42, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
I deleted the file and created sockpuppet category with 4 socks. Taivo (talk) 10:10, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks! Could you salt it, too?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:12, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
I do not want. I have now the filename in my watchlist and I hope to catch new sockpuppets that way. Taivo (talk) 10:13, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
@Taivo: Right, 'nuf said.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:19, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Mass-rename request

We spotted that a bunch of images we recently uploaded from a GLAm had a typo in their metadata.

For files in Category:Tollie Zellman please replace all occurrences "Tollie Zellamn" in the filenames with the correct "Tollie Zellman".

Many thanks / André Costa (WMSE) (talk) André Costa (WMSE) (talk) 09:44, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Request for Deletion

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to write it. Please delete this file: File:Danielhamelech.webp. It was uploaded to be used in an insulting article in the Hebrew Wikipedia, by a user we blocked. Saifunny (talk) 17:11, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

@Saifunny: Please see Commons:Deletion requests/File:Danielhamelech.webp.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 17:16, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks you very much! Saifunny (talk) 17:21, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
@Saifunny: You're welcome!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 17:29, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done @Jeff G. and @Saifunny: I have closed this DR and speedy deleted this low quality personal image per COM:CSD#F10. ─ Aafī (talk) 18:52, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
@Aafi: Thanks!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 18:59, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you both! Saifunny (talk) 19:03, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

About a deletion request (stagnation)

Hi. I had mentioned the subject in my previous topic, additional information was requested, which I provided in the deletion request and based on what has been said there, there is possible copyright violation. As of the last information I provided, it has been a month and there has been no response on the matter. Has anyone checked this? Is the information listed so far not enough? What happens? IM-yb (talk) 17:31, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

@IM-yb: That DR's subject is in Category:Deletion requests February 2024 and that DR is transcluded to Commons:Deletion requests/2024/02/23. Per COM:DR, Admins are still working the backlog in Commons:Deletion requests/2024/01, currently up to January 17th. Please be patient.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 01:19, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

"Nazi Zionist"

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of Nazi-Sionist Brazil.svg. I would like to see this deleted sooner rather than later. It seems to me to get awfully close to hate speech, and does not document anything in the actual world other than itself. - Jmabel ! talk 04:39, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Deleted and DR closed. ─ Aafī (talk) 07:34, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you Aafi, a wise decision. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 07:40, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

File:Wiki-patricia-holly-purcell.djvu

Can an admin look at File:Wiki-patricia-holly-purcell.djvu? It seems like it might be out of COM:SCOPE. This is a new user who posted at en:WP:HD#New Unconfirmed Account and they might be mistaking Wikipedia/Commons for some kind of LinkedIn type of profile site. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:37, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Personal bio, out of scope. Deleted, user warned. This user also wrote here. Yann (talk) 14:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you Yann. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:28, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Please ban User:GutenTagLieder globally

Nazi troll. See his discussion page and File:Reichsleiter_Alexander_2.jpg. Thanks, Mussklprozz (talk) 08:18, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

You need to request a global block at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global . --Túrelio (talk) 08:36, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done Blocked as well as BacnUnstafaik (talk · contribs). Everything deleted. Yann (talk) 08:39, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
@Yann: Thank you very much! Mussklprozz (talk) 08:47, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
@Mussklprozz: So requested.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:05, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

请问管理员，能不能对两个生僻字添加显示支持？

我新建的一个词条用到了一个生僻字，在英语的wiki下可以显示，唯独中文wiki不显示。另外一个词条的生僻字也不显示。 分别是“晛”（xian，4声）和“魟”（hong，2声），非常感谢。 Caiptony (talk) 10:33, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

不知道你在哪遇到這些問題。
似乎不屬於commons用戶能夠幫你的範圍。
參考zh:Wikipedia:格式手册/生僻字。 RZuo (talk) 16:26, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

File:Dora Maar.jpg

Hello, could an admin look at this request for deletion? [[7]]? derivative work. Thanks, --Msbbb (talk) 15:42, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Deleted. Yann (talk) 15:58, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Remove categories from user page

Luca Love Photo's user page seems to have a few categories that don't seem like they should be there? Don't know what the guidelines are for this

Like: Nature photography, Flower Photography, Butterflies, Macro photography, Landscapes Abandonee (talk) 08:26, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done I removed the categories. GPSLeo (talk) 08:45, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Please remove CSS overrides from MediaWiki:Gadget-uploadWizardMobile.css

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T358593

Hello, I would like to ask an interface admin to please remove the CSS overrides that make UW more responsive in MediaWiki:Gadget-uploadWizardMobile.css. Most of the things there have been implemented in UploadWizard, sometimes with some minor changes, but overall these overrides are no longer needed, and actually might cause bugs and malfunctions. Can someone please remove them? Thanks in advance! Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:47, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

@Sannita (WMF): Would you mind clarifying what you want? Do you want the gadget uploadWizardMobile removed from MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition? Alternatively, do you want something else, like MediaWiki:Gadget-uploadWizardMobile.css blanked, deleted, or edited? If that is the case you can specify the changes you would like to have done at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-uploadWizardMobile.css via {{Edit request}}, although if you mention what you want done here I'll see it. By the way, does this mean that phab:T261589 has been assigned to someone? —RP88 (talk) 05:54, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
@RP88 Actually, we don't know and I would defer this decision to you. Whichever is less taxing and easier for you to do.
As per phab:T261589, it was not assigned, but we're about to close it anyway, because the work was done through phab:T355248. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:38, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
@RP88 If I understand correctly, there is now fix for upload wizard so the local gadget can be removed from the MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition and MediaWiki:Gadget-uploadWizardMobile, MediaWiki:Gadget-uploadWizardMobile.css can be deleted. (note i was the proposer for the gadget at 2021) --Zache (talk) 13:35, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
OK, I've removed uploadWizardMobile from MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition and then deleted the now unused css file. —RP88 (talk) 16:51, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Rev del request

Please revision delete GRP edits on Category:Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. TIA, --SHB2000 (talk) 23:48, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done by AntiCompositeNumber The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 05:34, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
It seems only the edit summaries have been revdelled (not the edits). --SHB2000 (talk) 10:43, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
But why should this addition be hidden? --A.Savin 10:50, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
It was added by a WMF-banned user, and it's custom on most wikis to revision delete their edits. --SHB2000 (talk) 10:56, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
IMHO: Block, revert & ignore is enough, see also en:WP:DENY. --A.Savin 11:12, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
No, because they will go on a revert spree once the protection is over. Revdelling is also part of the "deny recognition" process. --SHB2000 (talk) 11:56, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Disagree with this, what's the point keeping inflammatory comments on edit summaries. This does not give attention IMO. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 16:31, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
No point. I didn't suggest keeping inflammatory comments. --A.Savin 16:52, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for deleting them. --SHB2000 (talk) 23:13, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Wasting resources

Can someone look into, delete the uploads of and potential even block the user User:Jarrod stanley ? This user has been uploading multi gigabyte, 7 hour videos of blackness and noise. This is extremely wasteful and behavior like this risks that uploads of this size are going to be restricted for most Commons users. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 20:52, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

@TheDJ: Please post this on COM:ANU instead. --SHB2000 (talk) 01:28, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
See Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Jarrod stanley‎. Yann (talk) 12:35, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Fake descriptions

User:VPosypai contributed a number of artworks. User claimed that artworks are their own and are traditional drawings on paper, but those definitely are digital works, for example: File:Miran Marussig by VPosypai.jpg. Looks like those could be just modified real photos, and there is no indication that VPosypai is the owner of original photos. Siradan (talk) 11:34, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

@Siradan: You must inform users when you report them on a board. Yann (talk) 12:26, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Yes, I know. I already informed VPosypai about this topic right after report. Siradan (talk) 12:28, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Revert edit

I wanted to revert spam edits in File:Nipple piercing ring.jpg, but it doesn't allow me since i don't have permission to review images, and therefore to add FlickreviewR template back. Can someone revert it. --Smooth O (talk) 12:30, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Yann (talk) 12:36, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

redlinked categories

User:Hornstrandir1 has mass-created red linked categories that are irrelevant and not needed. Do admins have a tool for mass-reversal? Schwede66 23:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

@Schwede66 They should have it as it is built into their tools. I will also add that this user has a history of doing this from looking at their discussion board. Perhaps a block will be warranted here (again). Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 23:34, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! Schwede66 23:36, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
@Schwede66: I am myself unsure of massrollback/reversal tool. At the least I can't find it anywhere on my admin kit. ─ Aafī (talk) 03:42, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
@Aafi I may have a script for you that may work. Give me a few minutes to go through my toolkit please. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 03:44, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
@Aafi Here are a couple that may work; though they may need to be customized:
  • Nuke - Only admin group can see and use this tool
Read through these and see if they help:
If twinkle works on here you may also have this option:
Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 03:53, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Mass-deleting pages & mass-reversing/reverting are two different things. ─ The Aafī on Mobile (talk) 04:50, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
@AafiOnMobile@Aafi I believe all three can be used for deleting. Outside of that I only have other scripts to nominate. I can’t even warn users on here unless I do it manually. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 04:52, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
I actually don't understand why my categories should all be deleted. Lots of them have beend linked to wikidata. Which ones do you think to be wrong ones?12:33, 18 April 2024 (UTC) Hornstrandir1 (talk) 12:33, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
What are red-linked categories?12:34, 18 April 2024 (UTC) Hornstrandir1 (talk) 12:34, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
@Hornstrandir1 Red linked means they are not created yet as they do not meet the criteria to have them created. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 21:05, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for the information.Hornstrandir1 (talk) 15:52, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Request for documents in Brahmi script wherever available.

Nagiri/Devanagiri script is much younger than Brahmi script. I would appreciate it if you could publish the older manuscripts if available in Bhramhi script as original. I am sure any manuscript before 700 AD must be available in older script. Thanks Pisapatis (talk) 19:11, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

@Pisapatis: Hi,
You are on the wrong board, as this would be much better suited on COM:VP. But do you have any idea where these manuscripts would be available? Yann (talk) 19:45, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

File:GTA IV logo.svg

Please semiprotect. Vandalism Trade (talk) 15:52, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done for a year. Abzeronow (talk) 17:33, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Blacklist this Flickr account Erdonzello

Dear Admins,

Can someone please place this Erdonzello flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/people/193751847@N03/ on a blacklist. It is just full of FLICKRwashing images (from its first to almost the last page) WHICH ARE FREELY LICENSED and I have had to launch two Deletion Requests on it.

Please see This DR and This DR Best, --Leoboudv (talk) 22:23, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done - I've addressed those DRs and added 193751847@N03 to COM:QFI. Please note, however, that this list does not work the way you appear to think it does ("Right now, anyone can pass images from this flickr account if they wanted to...which is crazy"). All this list does is prevent Flickrreviewbot from automatically reviewing images; the bot instead tags the image for manual review. That "anyone can pass images from this flickr account" will always be true (where "anyone" means license reviewer or admin) regardless of whether a Flickr account is on the list or not. Эlcobbola talk 23:16, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

File:Soumitrisha Kundu signature.jpg is uploaded from facebook (Meta) per https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054946043881 and falsely tagged as Public Domain (PD). Please remove it per Wikipedia Commons rules. Thank you. Agent 007 (talk) 19:14, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

It will likely be removed when 7 days have passed since the DR was started. Removal is not urgent (you are correct in that signatures are protected in India and this is from a living person). Abzeronow (talk) 19:22, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

File deletion request

Hello, these files are completely in violation of copyright and have been downloaded from various sites without copyright permission: [1]

Grateful Pereoptic (talk) 05:33, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done} Tagged. Yann (talk) 19:06, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

File:Reto Weber Montreux 2016, © Marcel Meier.jpg

This file has just been created, however it is apparently copyrighted. As I don't have much anti-vandalism experience, could someone please help me deal with this? Thank you! 2003 LN6 18:56, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

@2003 LN6: Hi, What's your evidence? The uploader name is Marcel, and I don't see any copy on the Internet. Yann (talk) 19:04, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
It is labeled as copyrighted, so it should not be uploaded here. 2003 LN6 19:31, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
A CC-BY-SA 4.0 photograph is a copyrighted photograph, so a copyright notice does not contradict the terms of the license. Abzeronow (talk) 19:35, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! 2003 LN6 19:50, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

File:HongkongersUK.jpg

Please delete and block--and maybe check CU. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 22:18, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Convenience link: File:HongkongersUK.jpg. - Jmabel ! talk 13:42, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

File:Boulder dedicated to Jonathan Baldwin Turner's speech at the 1851 Granville Convention.jpg

Hi! I have been directed from VRT to ask an admin/license reviewer to double check the license status of File:Boulder dedicated to Jonathan Baldwin Turner's speech at the 1851 Granville Convention.jpg (I had originally forwarded an email with permission to VRT, but that was rendered moot because the website updated the license). Would someone be able to do a quick license review ? Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk) 01:30, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Ellywa (talk) 08:56, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Fake descriptions

Old thread was archived without resolution of the problem, yet something needs to be done with numerous files. Siradan (talk) 12:47, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Tag creation request

In the past, I have requested creation of specific tags for each OpenRefine minor version: openrefine-3.7, openrefine-3.8 and so on. It's probably not so useful to have such a granularity so I would request the creation of the (hopefully last) tag: openrefine, which would be used by all future OpenRefine versions (>= 3.9). Would an admin be able to create it? Thank you! − Pintoch (talk) 13:24, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done As there has been no objection Pintoch, I've gone ahead and created this tag. —RP88 (talk) 21:21, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion review

Can I have a second opinion on the speedy deletion of File:Atago fukaya factory.jpg and File:Atago fukaya factory 2.jpg? They were speedy-deleted without standard user talk page notification. If "no license" was the problem, I think the uploader could have added one, if notified. There were other procedural problems (unexplained removal of source information) that make the SD requests seem less valid.

Unless it turns out the files had other obvious problems than "no license", such as blatant copyright violation, I might suggest having a regular deletion discussion. If COM:UDEL is more appropriate, I'm happy to bring it to there. whym (talk) 08:39, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

@Whym: This wasn't done over-speedily: it sat marked for a week. At any time during that it could have been turned to a regular DR, but it's a bit late for that.
At this point I believe we would have to go through an undeletion request, which would be entirely reasonable.
Originally it was claimed as "own work". That was removed by the nominator without explanation. It had a license completely compatible with the claim of "own work". No one indicated why "own work" was doubted. - Jmabel ! talk 14:22, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice, Jmabel. Will Krd change mind in light of this? I just thought that if there was a simple mistake or something, they might want to have the chance to undo it first. If not, I'm happy to move onto a proper undeletion request. whym (talk) 03:13, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Add file to deletion discussion

File:El Presidente de Chile Gabriel Boric junto al Primer Ministro de Haití Ariel Henry.jpg has been nominated for deletion. Please add the deletion notice to its derivative File:Ariel Henry July 2023.jpg, as it is currently protected. @Bagumba for awareness. Robertsky (talk) 08:16, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done I also notified admins at ptwiki so they can remove the image from the main page if they want. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 09:14, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

The current movie that's the Media of the Day "is a 1958 American comedy-drama film of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel of the same name." That is, if the underlying work is still copyrighted (ala many deletions of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck), then the film is protected, at least in the derivative parts. Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel was renewed, with renewal id R256172, and thus the movie will be under copyright until at least 1933+96, or 2029. As it is a media of the day, I can't nominated it for deletion. Prosfilaes (talk) 00:22, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Looking —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:14, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
@Prosfilaes Nominated for deletion and removed from the main page. I think the movie is actually still copyrighted itself and a derivative work of the still-copyrighted book. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:21, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Massive backlog in User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands/Category moves

The semi-automatic category move function on CommonsDelinker had been really congested by pending requests since 2023, and even without reviewing the whopping number of mass category move requests (currently 19), the number of standalone requests are also high.

I would be grateful if some admin can look through the problem and at least approve some of the less controversial ones. Many thanks.廣九直通車 (talk) 07:29, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Have been working through standalones for the last few days. Abzeronow (talk) 22:09, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your contributions!廣九直通車 (talk) 06:17, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Yes, thank you for volunteering to work on these pending requests. -- Ooligan (talk) 00:12, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
You're welcome. I'll keep at trying to reduce the backlog with them. Abzeronow (talk) 17:01, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Weather at Commons

It's not directly an admin issue, but as admins are expected to moderate discussions here, or at least stop users from getting carried away.

I get the impression that the weather at Commons is somewhat bad these days for professional photographers. Some users who may consider that commercial photography is not a profession, craft or art to practice seem to work hard towards what might actually drive them away to other platforms. The same may eventually make use loose GLAMs who less directly benefit from contributing here, but are also paid for their work. Enhancing999 (talk) 14:35, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Is there an example where admins acted in an unfriendly way in discussions? There are often different options on certain topics but the language in discussions is mostly respectful. GPSLeo (talk) 17:53, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Oh not all. They are somewhat careful to not involve themselves. Enhancing999 (talk) 17:55, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Sorry, what do you mean with "somewhat careful to not involve themselves"? GPSLeo (talk) 19:56, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Shouldn't this be at VP unless I'm missing something, how is this related to admins? —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 20:16, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
The community chose admins to moderate discussions around here. So they can't really do much more. It's for admins to ensure the weather doesn't become bad for our core contributors, preferably (moderately) friendly. Enhancing999 (talk) 09:26, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
If there is a person or persons you think has done something wrong, please be specific, preferably with diffs. No one can respond usefully to a vague statement that the atmosphere here feels hostile. - Jmabel ! talk 02:13, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
i just wanna say:
  1. sysops are entrusted with only 3 additional buttons: delete, protect and block.
  2. sysops are not "moderators of discussions". those 3 buttons are technical, nothing to do with "moderating discussions".
  3. if every user uses commons sense and etiquette, there is no need to moderate.
  4. if it's really necessary to have someone "moderate", any reasonable user (instead of only sysops) can voluntarily do that.
RZuo (talk) 11:02, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth in Sweden 2024 mass message

I would like to ask the administrators to send a mass message to previous participants in Wiki Loves Earth in Sweden to notify them about the upcoming competition. I've followed the recommendations here and here, and have updated Commons:Wiki Loves Earth in Sweden/Mass message with the text and recipient list. Thank you in advance! Alicia Fagerving (WMSE) (talk) 15:16, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Looking at it. Ymblanter (talk) 05:27, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done Ymblanter (talk) 07:06, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Please help renaming categories

I am standardizing category names for the painter Jan Fyt. There are two categories I can't move because redirect categories already exist at the desired names. Could an admin please help with the following?

Thanks very much. -- Auntof6 (talk) 06:30, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

@Auntof6 ✓ Done —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 14:15, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
@Mdaniels5757: Thanks! -- Auntof6 (talk) 15:22, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Why am I banned from using the Crop Tool?

For reasons that I do not understand, it has been impossible for me to use the Crop Tool since the end of last year (2023). Whenever I want to use it, I am asked to authorize it first, and when I do so, I am asked again to authorize it first, etc. I am stuck in authorization hell and cannot have access to the tool. Now, why is that? Who banned me, and for what reason? Edelseider (talk) 10:51, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

@Edelseider: You are not banned, blocked, or anything. Sometimes there are glitches with the tools and OAuth. Right now, others are also having issues with CropTool, there are multiple discussions at Commons talk:CropTool. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 11:24, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Thank you, @AFBorchert: . I see other users uploading cropped pictures, so I assumed that there was a ban. It's very unfortunate that the tool is not available to everybody, I hope that it will be fixed soon! All the best, Edelseider (talk) 12:32, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
@Edelseider: Some of these issues do not effect all and are dependent on the cookies and your browser. I am not too familiar with this but it might help to try this with another browser and cookies removed. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 12:55, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
@Edelseider: Logging out completely and then logging in may also help.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:28, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: I have done everything. Logged out, purged my browser, used another computer, another browser... It's me, Edelseider, who is not allowed to authorize the tool. Neither the software nor the hardware that I use is at fault. Edelseider (talk) 13:36, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
@Edelseider: Authorizing works for me. That looks like a bug, please see mw:How to report a bug.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:42, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion template icon

Before I went inactive and lost my administrative rights, I remember seeing a little rubbish bin icon in connection with speedy deletion templates, which when clicked would take me to the page's &delete tab with a prefilled deletion rationale. Now I can't see the icon, which I assume is the result of not being an administrator anymore. What file is used for this purpose? See this oldid for a page with a speedy deletion template. Nyttend (talk) 20:35, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Looks like it's File:Gnome-edit-delete.svg Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:55, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
How is the attribution requirement fulfilled? Context — I've proposed that this icon be added to the en:wp speedy deletion templates (Template talk:Db-meta), and someone says that we have to have a PD image or one with a no-attribution-required licence. Nyttend (talk) 21:07, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
@Nyttend: Attribution is to GNOME Project, and {{LGPLv3}} doesn't require attribution. Who says "we have to have a PD image or one with a no-attribution-required licence" where?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 04:24, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
LGPLv3 does require attribution: see section 4 of the GPLv3, which is incorporated by the bit before section 0 of the LGPLv3. CC BY-SA, of course, also requires attribution. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 23:18, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
@Mdaniels5757: So why does our template not take any parameters?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:09, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
@Jeff G. Because attribution doesn't need to be in the template; it just needs to be "conspicuously and appropriately" on "each copy". This would include attribution elsewhere on the file description page, at least where the description page is linked by the image. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:41, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I can see this icon. On [8], I get File not found: /v1/AUTH_mw/wikipedia-commons-local-public.96/9/96/Gnome-edit-delete.svg. Any idea? Yann (talk) 11:42, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
I filled up a bug report: phab:T363995. Yann (talk) 11:48, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Can someone help me out here.

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I tried with nominating File:Atal Bihari Vajpayee (crop 2).jpg for valued image at Commons:Valued image candidates/Atal Bihari Vajpayee (crop 2).jpg. I did. But after this long, I see no progress. Is there any issue with my nomination. Have I done something wrong. If yes then can someone please fix it. If no can we take the nomination forward and vote. ShaanSenguptaTalk 07:54, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

@Shaan Sengupta It looks like you may have forgot step 2 from Commons:Valued image candidates#Adding a new nomination (image); it should be working now. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 13:56, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
@Mdaniels5757 Maybe. Thank you so much for the help. ShaanSenguptaTalk 02:56, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
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XXXtentacion - dubious license

These two photos of en:XXXtentacion: File:Xxxtentacion mugshot.jpg (480x640 pix) and File:Look at Me!.jpg (3k x 3k pix) have a source of "Florida Dept. of Corrections". The 3k x 3k resolution and image quality is far higher than what I found on Florida's offender search engine. Photos there are small, often grainy, out of focus, and harsh lighting and shadows. The photo, to me, appears to be a photoshoot. I did a search on XXXtentacion (as "Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy", "Jahseh Onfroy" or "Onfroy" only) on that search engine and did not get any hits. A google image search of Look at Me!.jpg (will link work later?) returns numerous hits, many using "mug shot". Is this a valid license? Thanks Adakiko (talk) 18:51, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

The link is broken due to reasons beyond my comprehension. Jeff G. can explain better. I'm leaning towards no based on the lack of evidence for a release under a compatible license.
All the best -- Chuck Talk 21:40, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
I recall this photograph being released all over the internet in that good quality. Being (the Commons version) in greater quality than it now appears on the search engine does not mean 1) the image is not free / public domain 2) only the lower quality version is PD Bedivere (talk) 21:59, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
@Chuck: Which link is broken? Only Google can explain Google broken links. The google lens search of Look at Me!.jpg works for me.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:56, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Some GODL-India to review

(non-admin closure) The ones done are here. The ones left have been removed. Let this be archived now.

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I am here with a request to the reviewers/admins to kindly review some GODL-India files. Some of these are used on multiple wiki projects. Everyone knows the backlog of GODL-India. So this is the only way. The list obviously looks long, mainly bcoz of multiple crops.

Please review all of these so that my unreviewed upload backlog and some uploads from others that I have fixed is cleared. Thank You Again In Advance. ShaanSenguptaTalk 16:10, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

@Sikander, @Gabldotink and @C1K98V Just a gentle reminder. Will you be doing some more reviews? ShaanSenguptaTalk 15:39, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
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Unprotect Template:PD-USGov-DOC-Census/lang

Please unprotect or reduce the protection level for Template:PD-USGov-DOC-Census/lang so editors can add translations. Eran (talk) 08:26, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done Yann (talk) 12:38, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Help reverting a bad edit

I accidentally did a few bad structured data edits in an attempt to correct the depictions of a few images. I tried to undo the changes myself but was blocked by the abuse filter [ ref ]. So, it would be great if you could help with reverting those edits. Here's the list of changes:

Note: The MultiChillBot re-added the most of the structured data for the first one but the caption / image type still seem removed as far as I noticed. So, it might be better to revert the edit 🙂.

PS: To be honest, it is not actually an intentional bad edit. The Commons Android app has a bug that results in such bad edits when trying to edit depictions [ref] Kaartic [talk] 12:31, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Protection policy

Do you have a policy or guideline that stipulates whether a file should be protected based on a specified number of uses it has? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:52, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

@MSGJ: Please see Commons:Protection policy.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:04, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
I read that before coming here, and it does not answer my question — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:09, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Benoît Prieur

Benoît Prieur (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

This user is banned by WMF. Therefore please remove it from Commons:List of administrators and other administrator lists. GZWDer (talk) 12:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done --Yann (talk) 12:15, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Wow. Clearly the correct decision. I don't think I ever saw any of this leak into Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 17:21, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
I have got a death treat on Commons from a registered user and reported it to T&S. They acknowledged a receipt. This was more than a year ago, I am still waiting for a global lock or a global ban. The user is an administrator on another project and continues editing there. (To be fair I used to get death treats for my Wikimedia activities on a weekly basis, now it went to somewhat like a monthly basis). Ymblanter (talk) 17:54, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
@DerHexer: I'd be very interested in your thoughts on what Ymblanter says here. That sounds like a serious problem, and you are probably far more connected to the relevant "mechanisms" than I am. - Jmabel ! talk 20:26, 14 May 2024 (UTC) @DerHexer: re-pinging because my missing sig would have prevented this from pinging. - Jmabel ! talk 18:41, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
@Ymblanter, @Jmabel In my experience, T&S usually issues a private conduct warning before they ban in those sorts of situations. Some users have gotten more than one conduct warning before being banned. They should inform you when they resolve a report you submitted (by issuing a conduct warning, ban, or with no further action), but historically have not always done this well especially if similar conduct was reported by multiple people at the same time. I would encourage you to reply to the ticket and ask for an update, and if this does not work email ca@ directly to ask for an update. Feel free to email me details if you'd like me to reach out to someone directly on your behalf. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 20:49, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
  • It's sad how deep a formerly productive photographer and sysop colleague can fall and how suddenly. Although, given the fact how deep many Russian wiki(p/m)edians have fallen as well since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there's virtually nothing left that might surprise me. --A.Savin 19:52, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Valued image candidate didn't get promoted?

Hi! My image was promoted to Valued image in 2020, but didn't receive the actual promotion, template, categories, etc. Should I do this by hand? Or should I take any other steps to make it happen? Cheers!

Promotion topic: Commons:Valued image candidates/Laguna de Gallocanta, Aragon, Spain - endorheic lake.jpg

Image itself: File:Laguna de Gallocanta, Aragon, Spain - endorheic lake.jpg Tupungato (talk) 11:40, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

@Tupungato: Yes, do it yourself, provide the relevant link in the edit summary. - Jmabel ! talk 17:21, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Anak Sago

Can an admin take a look at the DR, Anak Sago has been replacing the DR templates from the files. --Min☠︎rax«¦talk¦» 04:20, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

✓ Done. I closed the DR. Taivo (talk) 10:11, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Do not forget to patrol edits after a manual revert

I noticed that many of us forgot to mark vandalism edits as patrolled after they reverted them manually or though undo. This results in double work when they are checked twice. So please make sure to not forget this step after the cleanup. And to those who do not know the tool: There is a script that adds an one click button to patrol all revisions of a page MediaWiki:PatrolPageRevisions.js. GPSLeo (talk) 16:19, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Non-translation “translations” on Commons:FAQ/bn

Commons:FAQ/bn is seemingly 99% translated, but in fact many of these “translations” are just copies of the English texts. This causes several issues:

  • Readers who look at the translation percentage think that they can read the page without knowing English, but this isn’t true;
  • Readers using accessibility software like screenreaders don’t get appropriate markup, since the Translate extension thinks these parts of the text are translated;
  • When a part of the text changes in English, it doesn’t get updated on the translation page because the extension thinks the translation, albeit outdated, is still more useful for readers than the English original (which would be true if it really was a translation, but not in this case).

Of course, the best solution would be actually translating those texts, but in case no Bangla speaker volunteers for that, at least the non-translation “translations” should be deleted. To do so, go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Commons%3AFAQ&action=page&language=bn, and for each row where the right (translation) column contains obviously English text:

  • click anywhere on the row;
  • click on the unit name (e.g. Translations:Commons:FAQ/4/bn);
  • click on History;
  • now you’re on the page history of a wiki page, just delete it like any other wiki page. You may want to check the page history first, in case it previously had a proper translation, although none of the few I checked had.

Thanks in advance! —Tacsipacsi (talk) 09:36, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Ping @Moheen who created these non-translations. GPSLeo (talk) 16:31, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
I know that. But there are always lots of things I have to do. I will shortly translate the remaining. Thanks for notifying me. ~Moheen (keep talking) 17:10, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
But why do you copy past the text? When viewing the page there will be the English text anyways if there is no translation. GPSLeo (talk) 17:31, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Exactly. It’s okay if not the whole page is translated in one go – just don’t touch the translation units you don’t translate. The system is smart enough to put the English text where there is no translation – and even smarter than a human, because it does so in a more accessible way than simply copying and pasting the English text. And at the same time, the statistics are not misleading. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:38, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
✓ Done. Sorry for the inconvenience. ~Moheen (keep talking) 07:34, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Template:Trademarked

The Russian translation of the template begins as follows: "Это произведение содержит материал, который может быть субъектом законов о товарных знаках в одной или нескольких юрисдикциях". I suggest it amended because 'субъект' denotes 'person' in Russian legal language while trademarks are by no means persons.

Proposed version: "Это произведение содержит материалы, которые могут подпадать под действие законов о товарных знаках в одной или нескольких юрисдикциях". Ur frnd (talk) 09:35, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

@Ur frnd: you can directly edit Template:Trademarked/ru and change it to your proposed version since it's not protected. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 17:25, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
Thank you, ✓ Done. Ur frnd (talk) 18:08, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

File:Anatoly Berezin with his son, 1976.jpg

I request to restore this file, because here on the website of the museum: https://mrkm.ru/novosti/k-90-letiyu-anatoliya-ivanovicha-berezina/?sphrase_id=8151. It says that all materials of the website are covered by Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. FlorianH76 (talk) 18:04, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

to get a file undeleted, please file a request at RFU. That is where we process undeletion reqests.
All the best -- Chuck Talk 23:18, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Copyupload-allowed-domains requests

Hi! Can an admin please take a look to MediaWiki talk:Copyupload-allowed-domains edit requests? There are 6 pending requests since 9th of April. Thanks! vip (talk) 19:30, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Werder Feinkost GmbH

Hallo, wir sind die Firma Werder Feinkost. Wir haben unser Firmenlogo aktualisiert. Ich bitte höflich darum, das alte Logo durch ein neues zum Beispiel das aus dem Anhang oder von unserer Website zu ersetzten.

Vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ihr Werder Feinkost Team Werder Feinkost GmbH (talk) 13:07, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

@Werder Feinkost GmbH: could you please indicate what is the logo that you want replaced, since we have quite a few logos for your firm?
Also, please use categories when uploading. - Jmabel ! talk 17:40, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Könnten Sie bitte angeben, welches Logo Sie ersetzen möchten, da wir eine ganze Reihe von Logos für Ihr Unternehmen haben?
Auch, bitte verwenden Sie beim Hochladen außerdem Kategorien - Jmabel ! talk 17:40, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
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